#subtle

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#clean #emotion #felt #first #flying

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#camera #enjoyed #except #front #getting

I woke to the sound of rain. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#rain #simple #subtle #beauty

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference. ↗

— Tony Martin

#audience #bought #difference #elvis #elvis presley

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. ↗

— Karl Marx

#appears #brings #commodity #extremely #first

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#angel #breath #dominant #entire #habits

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

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself. ↗

— Paul Muni

#herself #nature #repeat #subtle #too

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#expressing #great #language #nuances #our