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“I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.”

Firsts Two Remember Details Sketchy

Author:Ian McShane

“During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Firsts Able Science Purpose Half Knowledge Century Tasks Details Accomplished Devoted Doubtful Generalization Scientific Knowledge Juncture

Author:Hermann von Helmholtz

“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.”

Firsts Made Humanity Simple Interesting Mankind Inspired Details Forests Glances Statues Examination Lively Cathedrals

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.”

Way Firsts Grows Too Much Infinite Details Impression Finishing Freshness Lava Belated

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!”

Firsts Looks Bigs Light Values Force Strength Mass Add Details Impression Proportion Shade Big Things Vitality Vivid Spoil

Author:William Morris Hunt

“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.”

Way Should Firsts Made Artist Felt Simple Understood Simplicity Details Spectators Superfluous Elimination Beholder Motifs Simple Ways

Author:Alfred Sisley

“For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.”

Thinking World Years Firsts Memories Design Painting Needed Skills Concepts Paint Details Driven Around The World Rely Technical Skills

Author:Milford Zornes