In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes. – James Wolcott
Whatever I’m throwing out there in my work, you either catch that detail because you’re ready to catch it, but if you’re not, that’s OK – you’re still being entertained. – Isaiah Washington
I may not have a practical mind, but it’s very fixated on concrete things. I like detail. – Alma Guillermoprieto
A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail. – Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. – Carl Clinton Van Doren
I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out. – Colleen Atwood
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance. – Annie Dillard
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
Memoirs are – memory is – rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable – a detail that matters only if the diary is read. – Darin Strauss
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I’ll go from there. – Patrick deWitt
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece. – Gavin Bryars
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. – Giorgio Armani
As PM, you have got to do everything from chairing the Cabinet to ceremonial things. You have also got to do the nitty gritty. I do get stuck into the detail. – David Cameron
I’m not trying to be coy here; we’re just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months. – Jim Walton
The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution. – John Griffin Carlisle
Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth. – Lynn Margulis
I love anything really feminine. I love any sort of girly detail – anything with a bow or a heart on it, I’m immediately in love with. – Lauren Conrad
