Texture Quotes

228 quotes by 203 authors

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light,… — John Hurt
The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang… — Tom Robbins
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called… — Joyce Carol Oates
Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what… — Janet Fitch
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that… — John Steinbeck
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… — Bob Costas
I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's… — Casey Abrams
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… — John Cale
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without… — Peter Ackroyd
The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the… — Hilda Doolittle
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in… — M.F.K. Fisher
Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every… — Nick Cave
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… — Charles J. Shields
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must… — Paul Strand
Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures. — Emily Yoffe
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice… — George Santayana
Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form. — Howard Pyle
You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for… — Howard Pyle
But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour,… — Walter Pater
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and… — Julian Barnes

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