Elements Quotes

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

If we will concentrate on the best, that element will grow until it sparkles.

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.