#subtle

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cat #diagram #embodied #fish #given

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#changes #come #get #intent #interesting

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#books #compel #day #different #distinctly

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#concrete #feelings #most #our #representation

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety. ↗

— John McEnroe

#book #dinosaur #even #example #for example

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#good #good taste #style #subtlety #taste

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#behavior #details #draw #human #human behavior

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. ↗

— Kenneth Miller

#air #communicate #means #metal #piano

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#difficult #doing #filmmaker #french #honoring