Texture Quotes
Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.
I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.
The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.
The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
I happen to love coconut, particularly for that sweet and crunchy texture it adds to any dish.
I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.
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, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.
Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.
That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.
It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.
Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.
We don't “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.
Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
Hands are our earliest tools. Cooking starts with the hands which are so sensitive that when they touch something they transmit messages to your brain about texture and temperature.
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.
The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.
Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic outfit, if you're afraid of things that are more colorful and printed, and still create interest.
I believe that accessories should bring color and texture to an every day wardrobe based on each individual's sense of style.
The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.
If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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 on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.
Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.
I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something and then when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.
Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.
Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.
In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
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 they have their own resonance.
Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.
