I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.
I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
There was a time, in my early 20s, when I picked up the trumpet and said, 'I've got to change what I'm doing. ' I wasn't putting enough air through the horn. The tone I wanted was bigger than what I had. I was out of control.
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
I would rather die than betray his trust. " "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.
You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.
I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.
As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for laughs, I don’t know. As for me, I used to be a great albatross and whirled over the seas. Someone put an end to my journey, without any charity in the tone of it. But even stretched out on the ground I sing for you now my songs of love.
I loved the tone and the characters. They're all very different and they're all very typical for their time. When you read the screenplay you feel like meeting them and getting them off the page and on to the screen.
Eric was incensed, to use a good entry from my word of the day Calender. In fact his eyes were almost throwing sparks he was so angry. "This woman has been mine, and she will be mine" he said in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand.
I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me.
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.
The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided to make the picture. I had to find my way through that to choose, select, emphasise certain visual elements and sound.
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.
Left alone with the dial tone. . . excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?