Effect Quotes

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In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion… — Michelangelo
Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his… — John Bunyan
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die — Robert Herrick
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is… — Blaise Pascal
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so. — Henrik Ibsen
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the… — John Ruskin
There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector. — Antonio Machado
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the… — Walter Pater
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved… — Claude Monet
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring. — Elias Canetti
No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions. — Gerald Jampolsky
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and… — Eli Siegel
One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. — Nelson Mandela
The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is… — David Hockney
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once.… — David Hockney
Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. — Guillaume Apollinaire
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal… — Sathya Sai Baba

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