(62 quotes found)
“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”
Pablo Picasso
“Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept”
Carl Becker
“It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle. Once in a while it does, and you get a quick glimpse of its potential.”
E. B. White
“Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours”
Thomas Mann
“I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.”
Leonard Slatkin
“To clarify, we don't require students to ever give us their university password. All we require is that they simply use their school e-mail address to log into the site. We're an extremely secure site. I'm not sure what confidential information these universities think is spilling out.”
Chris Hughes
“[The talks have helped clarify] what each party wants or must have in the basket and also what each party cannot tolerate, ... That leaves a middle ground which to some might seem too small, but to me as chairman it's still hopeful.”
Chen Jian
“Version 1.1 is a minor release. It clarifies some ambiguities in version 1.0.”
Bob Rennard
“We won't clarify on oral submission.”
Constitution Bench
“I think we have already clarified that, and the prime minister has said we have the president's relief fund into which anyone can contribute. There are no restrictions.”
Tasnim Aslam
