Silhouettes Quotes

• That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• A good cover has a distinct silhouette

  J. C. Leyendecker

  Kent Steine, J. C. Leyendecker, Frederic B. Taraba (1996). “The J.C. Leyendecker collection: American illustrators poster book”

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• Most people chasing their dreams don't see the bigger picture, they just see the silhouette. Make the vision real!

  Joel Brown

  Dream, Real, People

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• The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

  Kara Walker

  Doe, Littles, Information

  "CULTURE ZOHN: Two Artists Transform Anger Into Things of Beauty" by Patricia Zohn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2008.

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• You go to new places and it opens your eyes to different things you haven't seen before. Everything from colors, to silhouettes, to patterns - it just comes from everywhere.

  Lauren Conrad

  Eye, Color, Different

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• One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

  Matthew Healy

  Gun, Rose, Needs

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• When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.

  Reed Krakoff

  Beautiful, Luxury, Shapes

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2014

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• I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

  Elvis Costello

  Kissing, Shadow, Selfishness

  Song: Human Hands, Album: Imperial Bedroom, 1982

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• There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

  Charles James

  Variation, Shapes, Originals

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• Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
  may your eyelids never flutter into the empty
  distance.
  Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.

  Pablo Neruda

  Famous Love, Beach, Distance

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a character and they are open to be filled with one's own imagination.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Character, Imagination, Soul

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• I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it.

  Serena Williams

  Add, Classic

  Source: wwd.com

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• That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Forever, Needs

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mirrors, Darkness, Black

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.220, Penguin

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• The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

  Giambattista Valli

  Fashion, Icons, Logos

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• I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you’ll look great in anything.

  Tim Gunn

  Believe, Balance, Looks

  "5 Secrets a Fashion Stylist Would Never Tell You (But Tim Gunn Will!)" by Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

  Kara Walker

  Stereotype, Reduction, Humans

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• Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades.

  Lubov Azria

  Lines, Shade, Embrace

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• I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk around with the accent, but those little things change you, whether it's your hair, your clothes, your shoes or a different silhouette. People absolutely look at you differently.

  Anna Torv

  Attitude, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette.

  Ugo Mochi

  Depth, Difficult, Composition

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• Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.

  L'Wren Scott

  Women's Beauty

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• She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Girl, Sweet, Artist

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• With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966)

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Eye

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• A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Eye, People, Tree

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• As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

  Federico Fellini

  Voice, Good Man, Directors

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