Texture Quotes

228 quotes by 203 authors

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from… — Katherine Dunn
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour,… — Herbert Read
I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in,… — Charles Gwathmey
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… — Walter J. Phillips
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… — David
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than… — Karen Thompson Walker
I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built. — Marilu Henner
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… — John Paul Caponigro
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.'… — Daniele Vare
If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my… — Kevin Hart
Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of… — Diane von Furstenberg
I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending… — Richard Gere
I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in… — Matt Groening
I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so… — Alexandra Guarnaschelli
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes… — Joan Didion
Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason… — Terry Eagleton
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… — Havelock Ellis
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real. — Ralph Fiennes
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. — Kazuo Ishiguro
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… — Henry James

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