Texture Quotes
228 quotes by 203 authors
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Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
— Mario Batali
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and…
— James Emanuel
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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
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
— William Hazlitt
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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…
— John Keats
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete.…
— Norman Cousins
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I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in…
— Paula Modersohn-Becker
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),…
— Robert Boyle
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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…
— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on…
— Edward Weston
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It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the…
— Ray Kroc
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Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.
— Jeannette Walls
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely…
— Jimmy Webb
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I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling…
— Naoto Fukasawa
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Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people,…
— Lois Mailou Jones
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Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces influenced by Ry…
— Bryan Beller
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What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally…
— Wallace Stegner
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The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience…
— Jacques Maritain
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Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For…
— Ian MacKaye
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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
Who Wrote These Texture Quotes
203 authors contributed a total of 228 Texture Quotes, led by these top contributors: