Quotes and Sayings About Texture
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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 -
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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 -
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 -
What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
-- Bill Laswell -
I love playing with words and texture.
-- Binyavanga Wainaina -
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.
-- Bob Costas -
A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.
-- Carlo Wolff -
Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.
-- Charles Correa -
It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.
-- Charles Duke -
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.
-- Charles J. Shields -
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.
-- Clement Greenberg -
In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
-- Colin Greenwood -
We don't “crave†animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.
-- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau -
I'm obsessed with textures. We're surrounded by so much vinyl that I find myself constantly in pursuit of other textures. One time I removed all the hair from a mouse with Nair-Hair just to see what it looked like. And it looked beautiful.
-- David -
The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.
-- DeBarra Mayo -
It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.
-- Doug Dawson -
Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.
-- Edwin Schlossberg -
I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.
-- Ellsworth Kelly -
It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.
-- Ford Madox Ford -
I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
-- Geddy Lee -
The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.
-- George Combe -
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 -
You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.
-- Jaclyn Smith -
What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
-- John Cale -
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 -
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
-- John Galsworthy -
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
