Actuality Quote by William Mortensen

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead…

— John Berger

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of…

— Felix Frankfurter

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

— Aristotle

“In fact, because tone is never entirely reducible to a reader’s emotional response to a text or reducible to the text’s internal representations of…

— Sianne Ngai

What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors…

— Clive Bell

What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence…

— Jean Cocteau

In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the…

— Cecil Taylor

“emotions were far from linear. They were circles and waves and dots and triangles. But they were rarely a straight line." Chapter 13 · Page 114 · Location 2031”

— Louise Penny

Tone has the living soul.

— Shinichi Suzuki

If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and…

— Kevin Keck

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like…

— Stan Smith