“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”
William Shenstone
“People are all purpose tokens, but you must remember each adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, integrates... in its unique way. It is difficult and unfair to use generalized laws.”
Mariana Fulger
“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“It isn't the flavor of coconut that troubles me, but the texture I feel as if I'm chewing on a sweetened cuticle.”
Steve Almond
“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
“Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.”
Margaret Drabble
“Black is very strong this season, especially black head-to-toe in varying textures. Black outfits are being paired with a single embellishment such as the fabulous little black dress with a pearl detail at the neck -- very Audrey Hepburn.”
Betsy Thompson
