Variation Quotes

250 quotes by 212 authors

The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that… — Gerhard Richter
Different people call me different things. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito,… — Sharlto Copley
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without… — Emanuel Ax
I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to… — Tim Curry
Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design… — John Kenneth Galbraith
You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on… — David Foster Wallace
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. — Colin Farrell
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor. — Walter Gilbert
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. — Ellsworth Huntington
By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. — Neil Jordan
All changes in space which we see, hear, smell or taste are literally tactile impressions. All our senses are variations of our unique sense of… — Rudolf von Laban
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. — Peter Eisenman
A lot of fantasy names are too much. Theyâ€™re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we… — George R. R. Martin
You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. — Charles Spurgeon
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,… — Philip James Bailey
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these… — Sol LeWitt
It is through drawing that masters are first revealed, through drawing that they live and prove their value, whatever variations they may impose on their… — Michael Gerard Bauer
A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent… — Walter J. Phillips

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