Variety Quotes

932 Variety quotes by 771 unique authors

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. — Unknown Author
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of… — Michelangelo
The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult… — Henry Moore
Whatever is natural admits of variety. — Madame de Stael
To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough. — Freeman Dyson
Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing,… — Benedetto Croce
Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? - must… — Eli Siegel
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new… — Jacob Bronowski
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences. — James Bryant Conant
The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent… — Joshua Reynolds
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or… — Joshua Reynolds
Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other. — James Fitzjames Stephen
Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an… — Philip Roth
The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing… — William Hogarth
If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and… — David Steindl-Rast
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I… — Patrick Stewart
There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and… — Philip Guston
To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend. — Daniel Gilbert
Put variety in white. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture… — Walter J. Phillips
Subject has the variety of life. — Walter J. Phillips
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite.… — Pierre Alechinsky
From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar… — Erasmus Darwin
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others — John Muir
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed… — Walt Disney

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