Tone Quotes

857 Tone quotes by 657 unique authors

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able… — Lewis Carroll
When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other… — Kit Harington
I love The Killing, I love Homeland and Mad Men, all those shows that lean into the tone of things. — M. Night Shyamalan
I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair… — Vera Farmiga
The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed. — Charlize Theron
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words. — George Eliot
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him… — Mark Twain
For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones. — Thomas Hood
Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling… — Washington Irving
To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones.… — Vincent Van Gogh
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. — Samuel Lover
A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres. — Henri Matisse
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
Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood… — Walter Pater
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from… — Hector Berlioz
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in… — Vincent Van Gogh
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several. — Paul Gauguin
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like… — Clarence Day
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations.… — Paul Cezanne
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. — Paul Klee
Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors… — Paul Klee
It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or… — Ben Shahn

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