Texture Quotes

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. (Henry James)
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive. View quote
E. F. Benson
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present. View quote
Paul Scott
The texture of experience is prior to everything else. View quote
Willem de Kooning
Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it. View quote
Willard van Orman Quine
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament. View quote
Hans Hofmann
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real. View quote
Ralph Fiennes
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. (Don DeLillo)
Almighty Framer of the Skies! O let our pure devotion rise, Like Incense in thy Sight! Wrapt in impenetrable Shade, The Texture of our Souls were made, Till thy Command gave Light. View quote
Thomas Chatterton
I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life. View quote
Peter Greenaway
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. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space. View quote
Susan Orlean
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. View quote
Tom Chatfield
I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication. View quote
Alan J. Pakula
I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time. View quote
Alexandra Guarnaschelli
In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures. View quote
Colin Greenwood
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then. View quote
Debbie Allen
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. (George Combe)
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. View quote
Herb Ritts
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. View quote
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time. View quote
John Gunther
There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought. View quote
Mark Goddard