“I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.” ArtUseLightArtistBlackWhiteKnowingObjectsPaintingSkillsConvincedSupremeReliefShadeBlack And White Author:Leon Battista Alberti
“Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.” RealEnoughShowsLightArtistCreativitySkillsIdealsTrue Artists Author:Roger Scruton
“Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties... I believe that commitment and technical skill can be achieved by means of one's own will and study , while fantasy and passion are more valuable because they are innate and inescapably peculiar assets.” GivingBelieveMeanLightPassionI BelieveFantasyStudySkillsShadowCommitmentThirdsPropertyDepthValuableDimensionsAssetsPeculiarInnateTechnical Skills Author:Augusto De Luca
“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.” WayYearsHumansHeartTwoLightImaginationHuman BeingsViewsFourTreeSkillsNormalSurvivalBeatsSeasonsPossessionDesertFasterRelySandPacePalmsGleamHeart BeatPalm Trees Book:Women of Sand and Myrrh Source: Women of Sand and Myrrh
“Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?” WayDoeMadeSoulLightLeftSidesCompanyDarknessAirAdventureSolitudeSkillsAmbitionBraveSurroundDaringCockpit Author:Charles Lindbergh
“Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them.” IfsNeedsWellsIdeasSometimesLightCoupleSkillsSellsGood IdeasHighlightsBad IdeasAdvocacy Author:John Daly
“Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.” KindSometimesLightBeautifulReadingGivenInformationSkillsPhotographerPhotographCloudsContemporaryLandscapeDramaticBuriedMundaneSiftingPretty PictureBeautiful Landscapes Author:Lucy R. Lippard
“When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself.” PeopleWorldWantFeelsLightAbleStuffDarknessGrowingShareWalkingSkillsPicksSkinsComplainingGladMeals Author:Amanda Palmer
“My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.” LightFatherPaintingSkillsPhotographerColourAttributesCompositionFormal Author:Patricia Piccinini
“I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.” WellsLightNamesDestinySkillsGreenAncientKnocking Author:Ang Lee
“Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.” FeelingsLightDoorsSkillsSatisfyingMasteryClosing Book:New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time Source: New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time
“''Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison, "We are the sisters of Gillian." "Why do you come?" my mother asked. "To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets." "To what end do you work?" "To the cause of justice and light." "How long will you strive?" "For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.” LittlesLongSaidEndsCharacterLightMotherGirlFeltCausesJusticeSecretOur LivesHonorSkillsTablesStriveFinishedOperaSoapAcademyGrandmaSoap OperasEvery GirlMy GrandmaUnisonGallagher Author:Ally Carter
“I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.” KindArtBookFactsLightFilmCertainRichChildhoodInformationFoolSkillsGoldCaughtDevelopingGatheringPricelessScrapPitifulArt HistoryArrangingBohemianNuggetsMagpies Book:The Moor's last sigh Source: The Moor's last sigh
“If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.” IfsWorldBelieveHeartMayEnoughLightOpportunityLosesNaturalDarkPoorObjectsGratitudeSkillsSafeEncouragementAffectionVanityAttachmentPreferenceConsolationFixing Author:Jane Austen