Best Texture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I’m not sensual because I’m looking to sin. But I’m sensual because I’m looking to give my life dimensions and texture and design and colour and depth and soul and beauty and harmony and meaning and aliveness and purpose.”

Desire Sin Design Color Morality Sensuality Sensual Dimensions Texture

Author:Lebo Grand

“The eye’s perception of texture is pale compared to the lips’, and I didn’t know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy.”

Kissing Lips Eyes Texture Velvet

Book:Night of Cake & Puppets

Source: Night of Cake & Puppets

“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.”

“This. Is where you ARE. Be active in what you’ve got, not suckling some prescribed monastic salvation belonging to another era that isn’t yours. Start living all these luminous philosophies in the down-n-dirty texture of the real world for others to see and trip over and align with. Try not segregating yourself so much, limiting your choices to one world or the other.”

Philosophy Creativity Fearless Expansion Texture Meaningful Life Luminous Unlimited Potential Expansion Of Consciousness World Traveler

Book:The Look of Amie Martine

Source: The Look of Amie Martine

“Experts in the fashion industry say the first clothes that people are drawn to are instinctual. Think of your favorite clothes as a child. Then as you mature, you focus deeper into the self. Now you favor clothes that involve sexuality, yours and other people's. You begin to reflect your profession, your mental state, then address your personal affectations. Your personhood. And then you start to look into the world. At society and history and nature. You feel for texture and you create contrasts and distance.”

Society Fashion Personality Texture Clothing

Book:Home Remedies

Source: Home Remedies

“Lobster has an aroma that is not in itself that appealing, more so than most other breeds of seafood. Yet, the lean protein of lobster is always joined by the lurid fats of melted butter, improving the texture and taste of most things, as well as increasing waist and decreasing arteriole width.”

Taste Texture Seafood Lobster Butter

Book:Holidays with Bigfoot

Source: Holidays with Bigfoot

“If a texture looks inviting, we take this as a "haptic invitation" (an appeal to our sense of touch to have a positive tactile experience).”

Texture Interior Design

Book:Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

Source: Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“I'd used vegetable dyes to color the entire thing a purple so deep it was almost black, the effect of which was fairly unappetizing... but perfect for Halloween, I hoped. I'd turned up the richness of the filling, aiming for a luxurious mouthfeel without being sickening, and made the whole thing more savory, dialing back on the sugar and adding garlic and onion and lots of fresh herbs to cut through the richness. I then rolled bites of it in a potato chip crust and deep-fried them, which sounded bizarre but worked. At least, I thought so. I held my breath as the judges crunched in and chewed thoughtfully. "I love this." Lenore Smith was blunt as always. "It's bizarre, but in all the best ways. The inside is melty and rich and savory, and the outside is perfectly crunchy and salty. It makes me think of an arancini." I was familiar with the fried Italian risotto balls, but I hadn't connected them to my dish until now.”

Cooking Ingredients Halloween Texture Jewish Noodles Tastes Crunchy Kugel

Book:Sadie on a Plate

Source: Sadie on a Plate

“I need the comfort. I look for a food memory to calm me and I settle on ceviche. A tart bite, a clean, fresh wave of flavor. Think of the process. Raw fish is translucent, but when you dip the lime juice onto it, it becomes something else. Cubes of white-fleshed fish begin to flake. Shrimp turn pink. Texture becomes color. Visible streaks, almost stripes, show the grain.”

Food For Thought Texture Seafood Shrimp Tastes Raw Food Ginny Selvaggio Ceviche

Book:The Kitchen Daughter

Source: The Kitchen Daughter

“I don't necessarily love rotting bodies, but there's a texture to a rotting body that is unbelievable. Have you ever seen a little rotted animal? I love looking at those things, just as much as I like to look at a close-up of some tree bark, or a small bug, or a cup of coffee, or a piece of pie. You get in close and the textures are wonderful.”

Corpses Texture Rotting Decomposition Dead Things

Book:Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

“So good to meet another- what do you say, 'foodie'? And I was just buying jam." He holds up a single jar of raspberry jam the color of rubies. It is the same jam Mama would buy for us when we stayed in France, the texture runny, little lumps of berries soft on the tongue, tiny seeds sticking between teeth.”

Texture Jam Raspberry

Book:The Color of Tea

Source: The Color of Tea

“Each moment has different flavor, different beauty and different texture.”

Beauty Meditation Mindfulness Present Moment Flavor Texture Power Of Now Mindfulness Meditation Each Moment

Book:Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“Never close your mind to a color. Remember, too, that texture is an important element. The same dress in the same shade of red may look wonderful on you in soft velvet but too harsh in a hard-finished taffeta. Think in terms of color combined with texture, not of one or the other independently.”

Fashion Style Texture Colors Dressing Up Personal Style Wife Dressing Anne Forgarty

Book:Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife

Source: Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife

“. . . fabric was my first consistent contact. . . my first language, my mother tongue—tactile, animate, and entire.”

Language Fashion Fabric Texture Clothing Mother Tongue Textiles Tactile

Book:Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“Contrast between textured areas and smooth areas in a tattoo can help direct the viewer’s eye to the most important elements. Highly textured areas will draw the eye and feel ‘closer’ to the viewer than areas with smooth or solid elements. Same goes for highly detailed areas vs. more blurred and soft areas.”

Design Tattoo Texture Tattooing How To Tattoo

Book:The Tattoo Textbook: Escape the Grind, Do What You Love, and Launch Your Kick-Ass Tattoo Career

Source: The Tattoo Textbook: Escape the Grind, Do What You Love, and Launch Your Kick-Ass Tattoo Career

“Although my orientation has been problematic for me, I do not view it as a burden these days any more than I do my eye color or hair texture, and that is despite it turning aggressively curly on me. I guess once puberty hit I was so gay that even my hair couldn't stay straight.”

Funny Hair Gay Burden Memoir Texture Orientation Curly Hair

Book:An Immovable Object

Source: An Immovable Object

“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality. Do you know the legend of Hercules and Antaeus, the giant wrestler, whose strength was incredible so long as he stood firmly on the earth? But when he was held, rootless, in midair, by Hercules, he perished easily. If there isn’t something in that legend for us today, in this city, in our time, then I am completely insane. Well, there we have the first thing I said we needed. Quality, texture of information.”

Reality Books Meaning Texture

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.”

Style Hair You Choose Texture

Author:Jaclyn Smith

“I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.”

Feels Writing Currents Trends Sci Fi Accused Texture My Future Gloomy

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.”

Knows World Mean Results Know How Becoming Unity Access Educated Supposed To Be Bored Significance Thick Texture Randomness

Author:Eva Brann

“Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.”

Needs Body Dark Feet Love You Hair Taste Skins Ears Warmth Shade Inches Toes Exceptional Need You Texture Softness Arches I Need You Dark Hair Saliva

Author:Nick Cave

“There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.”

Way Self Fiction Traditional Permit Grain Self Knowledge Texture Indirect Essayists

Author:Charles J. Shields

“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.”

Ifs Important Light Felt Space Tree Fronts Movement Objects Shapes Mountain Machines Cameras Photographer Being True Grass Texture

Author:Paul Strand

“Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.”

People May Certain Taste Eating Extremes Smell Psychological Disorder Discomfort Texture Eating Disorder Selective Picky

Author:Emily Yoffe

“Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.”

Men Peace Danger Victim Constant Calm Passionate Uncomfortable Texture Trifles Intervals

Book:The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3

Source: The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3

“Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.”

Sometimes Inspiration Animal Patterns Print Leafs Texture Bark Layout

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.”

Mean Light Form Color Shadow Paint Texture

Author:Howard Pyle

“You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the color and tone and texture... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.”

Looks Light Faces Fall Figures Color Models Weight Tone Proportion Joints Texture Scrutinize

Author:Howard Pyle

“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.”

Ifs World Mind Play Whole Individual Magic Groups Objects This World Tricks Impression Observation Colour Scope Chamber Texture Impressionism

Author:Walter Pater

“Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?”

Mean Next Names Given Grief One Day Function Length Texture

Author:Julian Barnes

“I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.”

Plans Color Painting Evolution Evolve Layers Texture

Author:Katherine Dunn

“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.”

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.”

“The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly.”

Hard Form Possibility Expression Regard Woods Impression Print Grain Occasional Texture Visibility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I'm obsessed with textures. We're surrounded by so much vinyl that I find myself constantly in pursuit of other textures. One time I removed all the hair from a mouse with Nair-Hair just to see what it looked like. And it looked beautiful.”

Beautiful Hair Pursuit Obsessed One Time Mice Texture Vinyl

Author:David Lynch

“A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.”

Way Doe Stories Jobs Literature Sentences Manage Texture Good Story

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.”

Men Way Taste Built Smell Explanation Texture

Author:Marilu Henner

“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.”

World May Lines Offers Shapes Mark Patterns Creator Surface Painter Rhythm Proportion Revelations Texture Signatures

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.”

Trying Doe Art Certain Stuff Pride Definitions Chinese Accomplished Pockets Thread Revealing Dictionary Texture Needles Sock Verbs Housewife Imitating Concealment

Author:Daniele Vare

“If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.”

Ifs Knows Looks Enough Hair Skins Chickens Look At Me Texture Resemblance Nuggets Chicken Nuggets Resemblance Is

Author:Kevin Hart

“I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical relationship with my surroundings, their weight, texture, density, transparency, and so forth.”

World Trying Mean Real Reality Weight Surroundings Transparency Texture Density

Author:Andrew Forge

“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.”

Light Dark Taught Areas Assuming Edges Features Evident Texture Taught Us

Author:Rex Brandt

“I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.”

Interest Rocks Shadow Not Interested Texture

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“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.”

Mean Art Earth Grows Understanding Our Lives Expression Understood Art Is Texture

Author:Rufino Tamayo

“Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.”

Differences Wonder Indifference Isolation Texture

Author:Edwin Schlossberg

“We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living”

Age Difficult Miracle Commonplace Texture

Book:How to Thrive in the Digital Age

Source: How to Thrive in the Digital Age

“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.”

Ifs Would Be Pieces Alive Written Worst Poet Essentials Dylan Texture

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.”

“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.”

New York Texture

Author:Richard Gere

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