“My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.”

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

We may turn the public mind which way we will.

For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

Illuminate the opposition.

The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.

I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch

Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan

We must win the common people in every corner.

And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.

These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.

I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!

I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?