Quotes About Tactile

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

His thumb rubbed the center of my palm. All my nerves concentrated there, alive to every movement of his skin on mine.

There, thinks Werner when he finds it again, there: a feeling like shutting your eyes and feeling your way down a mile-long thread until your fingernails find the tiny lump of a knot.

The weather in this place: you can feel it between your fingers.

If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic outfit, if you're afraid of things that are more colorful and printed, and still create interest.

The problem with online shopping is that you cannot feel the fabric.

She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

The warm metal, the gentle ridges, the rounded feminine base of the cap, were pleasant to hold.

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.

El universo es superficie. y si es superficie pulámosla para que no oponga ninguna aspereza al tacto, ningún sobresalto a la mirada. Para que brille, para que resplandezca, para que nos haga olvidar ese deseo, esa necesidad, esa manía de buscar lo que está más allá, del otro lado del velo, detrás del telón.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

I like to hold the chunk of remaining book as I read; I like to feel it diminish.

porque no se trata sólo de leer libros sino el placer físico y el consuelo interior que da tenerlos en las manos

Normally, the mind involuntarily superimposes a sense of solidity on our perceptions of visual objects, even though the eyes are not designed to detect this tactile characteristic.

There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've got lots of others, but I won't use them because I just don't like... the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn't right.

Books are heavy and dirty and messy and have strong smells and leave your skin dry and dusty.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that--that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it.

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

I love being hands-on.

Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things: you either have it, or you don't. I love bringing something to fruition with my hands that gives people pleasure.

Eva wasn't someone who valued emotional distance or personal space. She was like the puppy they'd rescued--affectionate, trusting, and tactile.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

Hugh stretched out one hand and stroked the fur. It felt cold and rich, it crackled with silky static electricity. Stroking it was like stroking a clear autumn night.