Texture Quotes

• I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Real, Feelings, Alive

  "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.

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• The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Interesting, Mixtures, Surface

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• Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

  Meghan Trainor

  Art, Color, Imagination

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• I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.

  Adamo Macri

  Taste, Doe, Bud

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• Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

  Robert Denning

  Patterns, Surprise, Should

  "The Sweet Smell of Excess" by Patricia Volk, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2006.

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• Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Real, Feelings, Littles

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• I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

  Katherine McCoy

  Color, Abstract, Form

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• When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes a part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before everyday life becomes clearer, sharper, and at the same time more spacious.

  Rick Fields

  Spiritual, Meditation, Everyday

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• The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

  Willem de Kooning

  "Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works". Book by David Anfam, p. 150, 1990.

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

  Paul Scott

  Past, Ambience

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

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• Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Shapes, Lines, May

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• What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Doe, Calling

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• Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

  Edwin Schlossberg

  Differences, Wonder, Isolation

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• Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

  Rex Brandt

  Dark, Light, Taught Us

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• I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Romance, Needs

  "Ang Lee Talks Brokeback Mountain". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 7, 2005.

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• The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

  William Hazlitt

  Imagination, Delicate, Wounds

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.

  Marty Sklar

  Communication, Color, Use

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• I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Miracle, Remarkable

  "Three Days to See". Atlantic Monthly, January, 1933.

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• A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Smell, Appreciate, Feelings

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• Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than we usually recognize; that we do not have to be confined by the limited views that our family, our society, or our own habitual thoughts impose on us; that life contains many dimensions, depths, textures, and meanings extending far beyond our familiar beliefs and concepts.

  John Welwood

  Views, Mind, Magic

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• One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Life, Real, Color

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• A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Butterfly, Light

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.39, Penguin

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• The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.

  William Howard Adams

  Eye, Garden, Long

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• To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.

  Jan Phillips

  Beautiful, Eye, Artist

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• What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

  John Gunther

  Men, Impact, Color

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