A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Beauty Body Character Curves Gesture Graceful Recognition Reference Soul Toward Waving

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

Stephen Fry

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Karl Marx

No reference is truly direct — every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.

Douglas Hofstadter

If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.

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Mo'Nique

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Greg Lynn

I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects.

Mark Grotjahn

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John Hodgman

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.

Auguste Rodin

Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.

Robert Genn

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

Julius Streicher

I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.

Michael Heizer

Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.

F. F. Bruce

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

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Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to have a strong, great or honorable character is to be a person of merit, worthy of admiration and honor.

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