"The contour eludes me." — Paul Cezanne

More Contour Quotes

This quote is filed under Contour Quotes, one of 20 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use. — Jean Aitchison
• I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness… — Bernard Berenson
• When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow.… — Volkmar Wentzel
• Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a… — Thomas Jefferson
• Believe in the holy contour of life. — Jack Kerouac
• As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour… — Gianfranco Ferre
• I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour — Barbara Hepworth
• Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's… — Germaine Greer
• The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for… — Ariel Durant
• The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. — Eugene Delacroix
• Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering… — Ida Rolf
• The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker

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