#subtle

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#books #compel #day #different #distinctly

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#concrete #feelings #most #our #representation

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#behavior #details #draw #human #human behavior

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#difficult #doing #filmmaker #french #honoring

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#big screen #i #intimidated #keep #kind

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#expected #first #i #just #moon

In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#city #completely #different #even #like

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. ↗

— John Denham

#evaporate #into #language #out #poetry

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #i #insidious #may #most

And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#guile #love #subtle #death