THE BEAUTY & NECESSITY OF TEXTURE NOW

This week we are exploring the beauty of texture. Without it, life would be far less interesting, meaningful and, quite frankly, dull. Today, we are sharing ideas and images about texture’s many sensory and spiritual gifts.

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

-- Ang Lee

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

-- Ralph Fiennes

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.

-- Laini Taylor, author of Night of Cake & Puppets

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

-- Paul Scott, author

What's universal is the texture of our relationships.

-- Terry McMillan, author

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

-- Edwin Schlossberg, designer, author, artist, founder and principal of ESI Design

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

-- Robert Denning, interior designer

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

-- Joan Didion, author 

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, painter

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.

-- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, illustrator

Read more about Beautiful Textures, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact.

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Image Credits:

1. Image: by Johan J. Ingles-Le Nobel. Sunset Moth Scales Macro.
2. Image: by Mark Chadwick. Acrylic Fluid Painting.
3. Image: by LadyDragonflyCC ->;<. “I LOVE THIS LENS!” 50mm 1:2.8 DG Macro.
4. Image: by Picdrome Public Domain Pictures. Rose petals close-up.
5. Image: by Evelyn Flint. Paper & Lace 2 - FREE TEXTURE.
6. Image: by Antonio Trogu. senza titolo.
7. Image: by Thomas. Rainbow Eucalyptus.
8. Image: by Macroscopic Solutions. Hummingbird Head Feathers, Coventry CT, 5x.
9. Image: by jenthestrawberry. Watercolor Texture IV.
10. Image: by Andrew Wyeth. Wind from the Sea.
11. Image: by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. From The Little Green Book to Fairyland.
12. Image: by Doug NC. Tree Bark.
13. Image: by PentaxFanatiK. Autumn Dew…
14. Image: by BN App - Download now!
15. Image: by Garry Knight. Starfish.