Function Quote by Robert Denning Download Open image “Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.” — Robert Denning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Function Patterns Should Surprise Texture
Anytime I see an unusual combination of colors or patterns or texture, I buy it. — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to… — Philip Ball Copy Share Image
I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied. — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others. — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts. — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up. — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture… — Arthur Fry Copy Share Image
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue. — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid color structure,… — Milford Zornes Copy Share Image
Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those… — Robert Denning Copy Share Image
Having people be impressed with a house is not a compliment. You don't want them to say, 'What a place!' You want them to… — Robert Denning Copy Share Image
I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals. — Robert Denning Copy Share Image
A la Rothschild, a style I define as many good things used irreverently. — Robert Denning Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image