“Ooh you touch my tra-la-la, uuum my ding ding dong.”

“…but defining their sound was Little Girls, an exuberant ska wrapped in an electronic patina, with modernist vocals à la XTC and a touch of dementia.”

“If you go, I'll let the law know,
And they'll head you off when you touch the ground.
Ooh, please, don't go through with this.
I don't like the sound of it.”

“You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow”

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”

“This is a book and a body that is so warm to the touch. My touch.”

“I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.”

“And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.”

“You [the interviewer Edouard Roditi, in 1958] have probably understood that I had always been mainly a plain-air painter, though I also painted portraits and still-life compositions. At first I experienced great difficulty with my brushwork – I mean with that the French call 'la touche de pinceau'. So Kandinsky taught me how to achieve the effects that I wanted with a palette knife. In the view from my window in Sèvres, that I painted in 1906, when we were together in France, you can see how well he taught me. Later of course, here in Murnau, I learned to handle brushes, too, but I managed this by following Kandinsky's example, first with a palette knife, than with brushes.”

“My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.”