Texture Quotes - Page 2

• What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

  Brian Eno

  Writing, What Matters, Atmosphere

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• There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

  John French Sloan

  Drawing, Chance, Study

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• There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Magic, Ink, Bottles

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• Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

  Rufino Tamayo

  Art, Mean, Expression

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• Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass.

  Ezra Stoller

  Photography, Glasses, Light

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• Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

  Alain de Botton

  Light, Smell, Childhood

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2014

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• I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Rocks, Shadow, Interest

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• There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

  William Shatner

  Drama, Film, Shots

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• The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.

  Andreas Feininger

  Light, Space, Patterns

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• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

  John Keats

  Philosophy, Angel, Air

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.214, Harvard University Press

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• Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fighting, Order, Color

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• Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

  William Shenstone

  Law, Break Through, Littles

  'Essays on Men, Manners, and Things' 'On Politics' in 'Works' (1764) vol. 2.

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• Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.

  Jim Rohn

  Unique, Voice, Giving

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 10, 2012

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• It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.

  Herman Melville

  Blow, Wind, Bird

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• In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

  Colin Greenwood

  Kids, Guitar, Difficult

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

  Desmond Tutu

  Laughter, Justice, Lessons

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• The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its own qualities of timbre and texture, to its own personal vibration. So just as directors and cinematographers (even those who will never make abstract films) have everything to gain by refining their knowledge of visual materials and textures, we can similarly benefit from disciplined attention to the inherent qualities of sounds.

  Michel Chion

  Emotional, Quality, Gains

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• One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

  Henry James

  Country, Civilization, Might

  'Hawthorne' (1879)

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• The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Expression, Woods, Visibility

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• The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Alive, Found

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• Whether you are cooking, cleaning house, or planting flowers, try to concentrate on the textures, the smells, colors, tastes, sounds, all Zen moments of focused joy.

  Jerry Lynch

  Flower, Color, Smell

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• Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Writing

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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• Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Smell, Touching, Flavor

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• There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Depression, Philosophy, Angel

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

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• The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sexy, Men, Body

  "The New Spirit". Book by Havelock Ellis, 1890.

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