Tone Quotes · Page 11

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

— Paul Gauguin

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

— Raoul Dufy

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the…

— Samuel Butler

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

— Stokely Carmichael

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

— George Eliot

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

— Lydia M. Child

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

— Jenna Fischer

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest…

— John Singer Sargent

If I'm going to buy a new guitar, I take it to a good 'hot' room, like a tiled bathroom, and listen…

— Richard Betts

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and…

— Anonymous

Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural…

— Oscar Peterson

Tone is always such an important thing, and that's achieved through a multitude of people. It comes through the writing, it comes…

— Harry Treadaway

I can't live without a good scrub or concealer. Concealer could give you 8 hours sleep instantly. I also love lipstick, for…

— Maria Canals Barrera

I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose…

— Lauren Mayberry

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to…

— David Luiz

I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of…

— Finn Wittrock

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of…

— Henri Matisse

However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its…

— John Quincy Adams

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered,…

— Marguerite Young

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange…

— Jerome K. Jerome

One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and…

— Garth Kravits

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed,…

— William Butler Yeats

Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Go on,” he said in a low tone that was a dare. “Keep on poking the hungry wolf, see how naked it…

— Nalini Singh

'Heavy Rain' was really close to a dark thriller, like 'Se7en.' 'Beyond' is different in terms of tone.

— David Cage

Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way.

— Jay Moore

The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone…

— Lev Yashin

Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire.

— David O. McKay

A Field in England' to me was a mind blowing experience. It's such a special tone.

— Gareth Evans

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

— Paul Cezanne

Ouch,” Jace said in her ear, his tone indignant. “You elbowed me.” “Well, you landed on me.

— Cassandra Clare

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

— Harvey Dunn

I cleanse, tone and moisturize, and always take off my make-up before I go to bed.

— Daisy Lowe

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

— Sefi Atta

1974 meant big cuffs, bell-bottoms, platform shoes with two-tone colors, and body-conscious shirts.

— Kyle MacLachlan

I really like films that don't let the score influence the tone too much.

— Riley Stearns

My biggest issue is hyperpigmentation and evening out my skin tone.

— Hannah Bronfman

Is your skin this tone all over?" "Only one way you're going to discover the answer to that.

— Nalini Singh

If you remove tone from music, you have something, but what? I find it difficult to call it music.

— Tamas Vasary