#sen

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture. ↗

— Otto Dix

#colors #everybody #experience #few #forms

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#face #i #like #look #off

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dwell #faulkner #fiction #framework #geography

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#because #bring #competitive #environment #help

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#great #men #self #sense #style

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#also #around #back #be patient #come

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#control #could #did #me #military

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. ↗

— John Doolittle

#basic #been #component #confined #developments

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#answer #asked #bat #before #had

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#binds #false #future #herself #past