Top 30 Tactile Quotes

I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.

The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it’s totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.

I’m not particularly tactile.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

There’s been a fragmentation of how the market functions, but I believe printed books are here to stay. People like the tactile experience, the smell of them; there’s a great romance to them.

I’m kind of a tech geek. With the camera work, I chose to shoot super 16, which has a real tactile feel. I feel it’s as authentic as possible; I love the way the grain feels.

When I write, I’m still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There’s a special, tactile experience.

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren’t many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.

I’ve done work wearing full cold-weather gear hanging off of scientific towers in the Antarctic and the Arctic. Having to actually do small, delicate tasks on scientific equipment while you have no dexterity or tactile feedback is something that’s very transferrable.

All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic book in one hand and a peanut butter sandwich in the other; the tactile sensation of the paper on the skin and so forth is part of the experience.

I’m a very physical person. I’m very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality – what I take in and what I put out there.

I think newspapers shouldn’t try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

This object that we hold in our hands, a book… that tactile pleasure, it’s just not going to go away.

I’m very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.

I’m quite tactile, so I like fabrics that feel good. I try to avoid fabrics that crease – especially with my son. When you have a child, that’s important. A great pair of a jeans, a t-shirt and some loafers, that’s what I always wear.

‘Happy Days’ is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It’s something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple.

Welsh women aren’t the most tactile unless they’re your relatives. And then you don’t want them to be.

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.

I’m interested in people’s relationship to objects, so I think a lot of my work is very tactile.

There’s something so inspiring about being in real locations, where you can feel the tactile qualities from the layer of paint that has been chipping off and the hundreds of years that have been lived in the space.

There’s something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

I’ve always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I collected them all the time.

Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It’s a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it’s one of those things: you either have it, or you don’t. I love bringing something to fruition with my hands that gives people pleasure.

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages… all forms of communication – visual, tactile, and so on… There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad.

I don’t want technology to take me so far that I don’t have to use my brain anymore. It’s like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It’s always got to be tactile, still organic.

Because I loved dance, I always need to be physical and moving, so photography that is more tactile made more sense.

I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It’s very clear to see – it’s fact. We’re not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.

I don’t want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that’s under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.