#subtle

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#art #contrast #create #diffusion #exposure

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#however #reactions #should #some #subtle

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#obvious #pays #reputation #subtlety #you

I woke to the sound of rain. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#rain #simple #subtle #beauty

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#destroy #faces #force #kind #loving

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#big screen #i #intimidated #keep #kind

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#expected #first #i #just #moon

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? ↗

— Kate Chopin

#branches #breathe #chord #detect #ear

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#big thing #calendar #country #cultural #forte

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#acoustic guitar #guitar #i #i love #love