Ambience Quotes

• Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

  Le Corbusier

  Light, Expression, Structure

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• Let's get loose with Compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambience of Love.

  Hafez

  Compassion, Delicious

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• Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Eating, My Favorite, Beauty Of Life

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• The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

  Paul Scott

  Past, Texture

  "The Scrapbook Designer's Workbook: Unlocking the Secrets to Great Page Design". Book by Kari Hansen, 2007.

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• Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

  Michael Graves

  Design, Architecture, Affair

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• It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.

  Claude Monet

  Crazy, Weather, Atmosphere

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• In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

  Bill Laswell

  House, Atmosphere, Quality

  "OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music". Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. April 2000.

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• Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.

  Nick Gordon

  Blessed, Heart, Dark

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• I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

  Jean Reno

  Acting, Back When, Rooms

  "Pint of Milk, Jean Reno". Empire Magazine (No. 255) Interview, 2010.

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• I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

  Jack Welch

  People, Excellence, Asking

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

  Rob Sheffield

  Flower, Night, Urban Legends

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• The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?

  May Sarton

  Beauty, Order, Meditation

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

  Andree Putman

  Design, Like You, Refrigerators

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• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  Kate Atkinson

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Wall, Father

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.8, Bantam

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• I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could make to the ambience of a room, and indeed how shifting work around could change a room's whole feeling.

  Michael Audain

  Art, Wall, Differences

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• My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

  Jacqueline de Ribes

  Childhood, Affection

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• The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.

  Steven Spielberg

  Drama, Eye, Makeup

  Source: collider.com

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• More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered states of consciousness. The rhythm of the music was precisely 120 beats per minute, the frequency of the fetal heart rate, and the same beat believed to be used by South American shamans to bring their tribes into a trance state. Through dancing together, without prescribed movements, or even partners, rave dancers sought to reach group consciousness on a level they had never experienced before.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Heart, Dancing, Dancer

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• The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.

  Neil Young

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the day before. The day of the session was kept as a holy day, and there were beautiful fruits and flowers around. The result was, that we had no negative experiences.

  Laura Huxley

  Beautiful, Flower, Holy Days

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• The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.

  Elia Suleiman

  Father, Character, Epic

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• Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.

  Bill Laswell

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

  Kate Atkinson

  Past, Thinking, Creating

  "Behind the scenes with Kate Atkinson". www.independent.co.uk. August 06, 2000.

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• Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.

  Patty Griffin

  Beautiful, Singing, Rooms

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