“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.” FirstsMadeHumanitySimpleInterestingMankindInspiredDetailsForestsGlancesStatuesExaminationLivelyCathedrals Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“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.” WayShouldFirstsMadeArtistFeltSimpleUnderstoodSimplicityDetailsSpectatorsSuperfluousEliminationBeholderMotifsSimple Ways Author:Alfred Sisley
“Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensMadeWholeNextLostMillionsFiveDesignSittingTownsDetailsScreensMake SenseCuteHotelHomelessDowntownSweatingSwept Away Author:Cameron Sinclair
“Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.” ThinkingFeelsMadeDifferentLyingValuesCultureEvilFatherChanceRacePerspectiveFruitDetailsGood And EvilSoleUglinessOur FatherLinkages Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories
“Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?” MadeWould BeUniverseTeachTeachingReadySpeciesDetailsCreatorCreationism Author:Isaac Asimov