They used language concentrating emotion, detail and image until theyarrived at a form of dew-like steel.

-Brautigan, Richard
  On  Japanese poets.  June 30th^ June 30th.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and colour if the storm is not therein?

-Ryder, Albert Pinkham
Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).

Retail is detail.

-Schultz, Howard
  Onbuilding Starbucks, thelargest US coffee-bar chain and mail-order business. In the NewYorkTimes,14 Dec.

Our life is frittered away by detail.

-Thoreau, Henry David
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Where I Lived, andWhat I Lived For'.