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I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

~Brian Eno

Topics: About Being Blue Brown Call Cold Colors Dark Descriptive Enough Here Listening Music Myself Often Oh Purposes See Sense Sort Sound Stuff Talk Think White Yes

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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

~Camryn Manheim

Topics: Always Descriptive Fat Just Thought Word

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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

~Camryn Manheim

Topics: Descriptive Fat Just Me Most Point Right Say Seems Way

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Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.

~Charlie Parker

Topics: Basically Descriptive Harmony Kinds Life Melody More Much Music People Rhythm Than Very Walks Ways

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Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

~Douglas Wood

Topics: Animation Descriptive Dialogue Lighter More Much Scripts Tend

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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

~Edmund Husserl

Topics: Answering Consciousness Descriptive Ideal Large Only Phenomena Psychology Pure Question Separated Sharply Specifically Will

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A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

~Elizabeth Peyton

Topics: About Describing Descriptive Feelings Forget Make Make Up Me More Other Painting Parts People Person Personalities Picture Somebody Talk Than Things Up Work

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Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

~Eric Gill

Topics: Alone Analytical Attempts Bread Descriptive Does He Hence Informative Live Man Purely Science Scientific

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Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

~Ernst Haas

Topics: Becomes Come Composed Concentration Creative Descriptive Existence Informative Itself Justify Less Made Moment More Picture Poetry Prose Pure Seeing Speak Subject Taken Than Through Touching Want Will Without

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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

~Gavin Bryars

Topics: Achieved Action Apparently Been Breaks Cards Descriptive Development Five Form Like Manipulation Minute Musical Parts Preamble Revelation Strict Structural Taking Whole

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