Nancy Duarte Quotes

I am best viewed from a distance... and at night.

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.

If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'

How do you stand out? Just find your point-of-view.

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live. I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on.

The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.