Tone Quotes - Page 27

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

Edmund White

Writing, America, Desire

The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.

Annika Sorenstam

Thinking, Play, Important

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At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the
tone in which they are uttered.

Paul Bourget

Moments, Certain

"Cosmopolis". Ch. 5 "Countess Steno". Book by Paul Bourget, 1892.

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When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in.

Dan Gable

Moving, Weight, Littles

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First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that captured the spirit and tone of your letter, and I think I did pretty well. [] I am thoroughly annoyed at having my tame statements of fact-being heavy is a health risk; rolls of exposed flesh are unsightly-characterized as “hate speech.”

Dan Savage

Hate, Thinking, Annoyed

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Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

Georges Seurat

Art, Gay, Keys

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I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.

Andy Milonakis

Stuff, Bizarre, Shows

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For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.

Annea Lockwood

Music, Sound, Momentum

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The highest tone is hard to hear.

Laozi

Taoism, Hard, Highest

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I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

Edward Burtynsky

Thinking, Environmental, Trying

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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 religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.

Hector Berlioz

Music, Religious, Powerful

Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss (2013). “Treatise on Instrumentation”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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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. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.

Vincent Van Gogh

Stars, Sunset, Light

Letter to brother Theo, from Arles, September 1888.

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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 an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.

Vincent Van Gogh

Color, May, Harmony

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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Paul Gauguin

Painting, Instruments

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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 that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

Clarence Day

God, Father, Guests

CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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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. So that light does not exist for the painter.

Paul Cezanne

Light, Sight, Doe

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By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

Paul Klee

Color, Simplicity, Way

Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.232, Univ of California Press

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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 and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

Paul Klee

Art, Space, Color

Paul Klee (1967). “Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition”

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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 a personality.

Ben Shahn

Teaching, Voice, Personality

BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

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If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

John Singer Sargent

Light, Lasts, Middle

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In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

Stan Smith

Real, White, Numbers

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A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

Kenneth Clarke

Europe, Depth, Agendas

"Edited highlights of Ken Clarke's address". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2001.

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Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Dark, Night, Reflection

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Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.

William Morris Hunt

Color, Simplicity, Trying

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Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.

Judith Orloff

Sweet, Thinking, Giving

Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.50, Harmony

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