Quotes About Tangibility

#1. Thus painting itself had to be able to demonstrate the desirability of what money could buy. And the visual desirability of what can be bought lies in its tangibility, in how it will reward the touch, the hand, of the owner.

John Berger

#2. That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back to one present and physical whole, whose blood was the proof of her tangibility.

Caroline Kettlewell

#3. Stories, after all, are merely memories given a certain tangibility with words, and it only takes a few words to subsume a memory completely.

Chris Bohjalian

#4. As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn't see my face. My mum was very disappointed.

Sheridan Smith

#5. Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

Steven Holl

#6. As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#7. Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

Jack White

#8. All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.

Ernst Gombrich

#9. I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

John Corbett

#10. From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king ...
Reforge the sword.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Wilt Chamberlain, all seven feet one inch and 275 pounds of him, had no problem running a 50-mile ultra when he was sixty years old after his knees had survived a lifetime of basketball.

Christopher McDougall

#12. Her bare feet land with light thuds like rain on stones.

Victoria Schwab

#13. Sometime in the near future, I pray that my faith can surpass the physical reality that appears in front of me and beyond me.

Patricia Graham

#14. I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

P.D. James

#15. Life is wonderful so love deeply.
Life is short so live it intensely.

Debasish Mridha