Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. — Vincent Van Gogh
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. — Antonio Gaudi
One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important. — Dieter Rams
If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents. — John Singer Sargent
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. — George S. Patton
We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil. — Robin S
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. — Arthur Schopenhauer
We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness. — A. D. Gordon
Pay particular attention to the moments that take your breath away – a beautiful sunset, an unusual eye color, a moving piece of music, the elegant design of a complex machine. — Rick Rubin
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness. — Edouard Manet
For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation in order to highlight their individual characteristics. — Akira Toriyama
Get maximum effect from minimum effort. — Bruce Lee
Delete the negative; accentuate the positive! — Donna Karan
Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive. — William Arthur Ward
I love to accentuate my eyes, so I'll wear eyeshadow and mascara. — Ming Xi
I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features. — Zac Efron
Accentuate the positive / Eliminate the negative. — Hayley Williams
I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing. — Casey Kasem
One can legitimately accentuate certain things, like a caricaturist. — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative. — Betty White
I am confident and not trying to hide my bump. I actually want to accentuate it. — Kim Kardashian
If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted. — Rudi Gernreich
Accentuate Image Quotes
Accentuate The Positive Quotes
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile. — William Arthur Ward
Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive. — Chet Atkins
You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between. — Ann M. Martin
Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each. — Denis Waitley
Carry on. Things will work out. If you keep trying and praying and working, things will work out. They always do. If you want to die at an early age, dwell on the negative. Accentuate the positive, and you’ll be around for a while. — Gordon B. Hinckley
What Are You Looking At Quotes
You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU! — Gerard Way
Get real. You are not the star of the movie. Most of what happens around you isn’t about you at all. There are infinite numbers of other movies. In those, if you feature at all, you’re just a supporting actor. It would really help your happiness if you started to look at your life that way. — Mo Gawdat
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader? — Hakeem Olajuwon
In reality, failure is simply feedback. It’s not that you are bad or not good enough or incapable. Failure — Lewis Howes
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? — Margaret Smith
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit. — Molly Ivins
I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you? — Shannon Hoon
The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing. — Annabella Sciorra
When you look at yourself in the mirror, don't pinpoint the things that you aren't happy with. Appreciate what you were born with and acknowledge the fact that you are you, and that is something to celebrate. — Shay Mitchell
Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to. — Yasmin Mogahed
Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Bottom line - cosmetics are used to accentuate an existing sex difference in facial contrast. This does not mean that women engage in this beautification practice with knowledge of this sexual dimorphism. — Gad Saad
For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance. — Ulf Merbold
I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate. — Laura Mvula
I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique. — Alfred Stieglitz
I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness. — David Bromstad
I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don't really care for it. — Mat Johnson
Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness, but, in fact, all thought is sickness, which is why no one ever thinks too much, at least most people do their best not to. — Javier Marías
I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn. — Sayings
Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it’s your shoulders or your long legs! — Tim Gunn
Not to be vain, but I have nice long legs, so I like to accentuate them. Find what part of your body you love most - it can be your arms, your chest, your legs - and emphasize that. — Sayings
I am not a sample size, and I am okay with that. I'm good with who I am. I like to accentuate the positive. My waist is something I love to show off. I'm also happy that more and more women are embracing who they are, because everybody's different. You don't have to be a size 0 to be pretty. You just have to be comfortable with who you are. — Jordin Sparks
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does. — Confucius
I'm not a model - I have curves. I find things that accentuate my body, a woman's body, and I always wear things that I feel comfortable in. — Demi Lovato
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. — Esther Dyson
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. — Florenz Ziegfeld
I was use to wearing things that accentuated and flattered my bust and waist (just shakin' what my mama gave me) and definitely not my thighs. — Erica Schroeder
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies. — Theodore Roosevelt
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines. — Eugene Delacroix
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce
I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide. — Monique Lhuillier
Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted. — Kyan Douglas
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. — G. H. Hardy
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality. — Arthur Rothstein
Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back. — Stephen Burt
It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!' — Lily James
It's been very satisfying to design a range which is all about shape. It's not about what size you are, it's about how you can minimise or accentuate parts of your body with clothing. That's what we've created. — Susannah Constantine
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love Dior. I've been wearing some of the really beautiful structured pieces - I love a deep neck and how it accentuates a woman in that area. And, of course, Louis Vuitton. I've honestly never met someone like Nicolas. He has a really fresh perspective on life in general. — Selena Gomez
We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information. — Kenneth E. Boulding
I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X. — Tadashi Shoji
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