Glance Quotes

446 Glance quotes by 339 unique authors

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of… — Ben Shahn
A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view… — Clement Greenberg
Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the… — William Morris Hunt
What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye… — Pierre Bonnard
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot… — Philip Guston
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. — Philip Guston
The Formless Supreme Being abides in the Realm of Eternity. Over His creation He casts His glance of grace. In that Realm are contained all… — Guru Nanak
I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country we live in.… — Bill Hicks
And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die. — Matthew Arnold
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are… — Davy Crockett
At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again. — Mary Anne Radmacher
I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock. — Johann Sebastian Bach
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast,… — Criss Jami
There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations. — Jean de la Bruyere
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of… — Umberto Eco
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age… — James Fenton
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries… — Jon Landau
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare. — Jenny McCarthy
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. — John Muir
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance. — Daniel Radcliffe
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our… — Tariq Ramadan

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