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You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for… — Howard Pyle
What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. — Mel Gibson
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add… — William Morris Hunt
The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In… — Daniel H. Pink
Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,. — Anne McLellan
Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing… — John Muir
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is… — Luis Barragan
A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. — David
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of… — Luis Barragan
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working… — Emma Goldman
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of… — Sloane Crosley
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations. — Philip Emeagwali
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. — Zaha Hadid
Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect. — Carolina Herrera
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. — David Hume
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to… — David Wilkerson
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. — Corrie Ten Boom
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept… — Jodi Picoult
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter… — Anais Nin
So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb. — Pablo Neruda
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have… — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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