Tension Quotes

• I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.

  

  Sean Scully
  • Kind
  • Rich
  • Paint

• There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Ambition
  • Building
  • China

• At a time when there is so much tension in the world - between cultures, and nations, and so forth - there is nothing that levels the playing field more than the arts.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Arts
  • Tension
  • Cultures

• The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Eye
  • Secret
  • Wealth

• The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Intellectual

• Narrative is so important for building the sexual tension. Can you imagine a horror movie that only shows the blood, with no context? I think women need to get to know the characters before they start stripping.

  

  Erika Lust
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Building

• Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean, frenzied dogs. Extreme hunger has a way of creating these emotions in even the most mil-mannered people.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Emotions
  • Creating
  • Dogs

• It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Tension
  • Guts

• Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

  

  Brice Marden
  • Tension
  • Holding

• God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Challenges
  • Champion
  • Complexity

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