Texture Quotes

• 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.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Real, Feelings, Alive

  "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.

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• Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

  Meghan Trainor

  Art, Color, Imagination

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• I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.

  Adamo Macri

  Taste, Doe, Bud

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• The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Interesting, Mixtures, Surface

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• Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

  Robert Denning

  Patterns, Surprise, Should

  "The Sweet Smell of Excess" by Patricia Volk, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2006.

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• Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Real, Feelings, Littles

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• I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

  Katherine McCoy

  Color, Abstract, Form

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• When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes a part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before everyday life becomes clearer, sharper, and at the same time more spacious.

  Rick Fields

  Spiritual, Meditation, Everyday

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• The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

  Paul Scott

  Past, Ambience

  "The Scrapbook Designer's Workbook: Unlocking the Secrets to Great Page Design". Book by Kari Hansen, 2007.

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• A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Butterfly, Light

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.39, Penguin

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• The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

  Willem de Kooning

  "Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works". Book by David Anfam, p. 150, 1990.

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• What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Doe, Calling

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• 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 telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Shapes, Lines, May

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• The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

  William Hazlitt

  Imagination, Delicate, Wounds

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

  Edwin Schlossberg

  Differences, Wonder, Isolation

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• 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.

  Rex Brandt

  Dark, Light, Taught Us

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• Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

  Rufino Tamayo

  Art, Mean, Expression

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• Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.

  Marty Sklar

  Communication, Color, Use

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• I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Miracle, Remarkable

  "Three Days to See". Atlantic Monthly, January, 1933.

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• One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Life, Real, Color

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• A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Smell, Appreciate, Feelings

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• The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.

  Andreas Feininger

  Light, Space, Patterns

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• I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Romance, Needs

  "Ang Lee Talks Brokeback Mountain". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 7, 2005.

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• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Laughter, Justice, Lessons

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• 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, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.

  Herbert Read

  Order, Ideas, Mind

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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