#elaborate

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#communicate #elaborate #less #means #more

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#comic #comic strip #doing #elaborate #getting

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#answer #basic #changed #code #come

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#beginning #built #child #education #elaborate

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#elaborate #end #like #manner #only

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me. ↗

— Denise Richards

#downside #elaborate #fans #go #great

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#animate #discouraged #elaborate #grace #invites

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#departure #elaborate #idea #more #point

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. ↗

— E. V. Lucas

#defence #elaborate #like