"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."

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"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."

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"Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah."

Mark Morris, American Dancer

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"Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own."

Utada Hikaru, Japanese Musician

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"In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process."

Sidney Sheldon, American Novelist

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"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

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"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."

Giorgio Armani, Italian Designer

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"A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable."

Heather Donahue, American Actress

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"My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults."

Adam Weishaupt, German Clergyman

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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

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"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

Joshua Lederberg, American Scientist

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"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."

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"Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching."

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