Gary Hume

I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.

English Artist

Henry Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

American Historian

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

David Slade

I'm a big fan of horror movies. But I prefer visceral to viscous, let's just say that.

British Director

While often used to describe liquids, 'viscous' applies to semi-solids or thick pastes too.

Not Just Liquids

'Viscous' can describe movement that seems slow and laborious, as if through a thick substance.

Feeling Sluggish

Use 'viscous' for tactile experiences where touch reveals the thickness or resistance of a substance.

Sensory Experience

 And then the asphaltenes -- and this is the crucial thing -- the asphaltenes get whipped by the waves into a frothy emulsion, something like mayonnaise. It triples the amount of oily, messy goo that you have in the water, and it makes it very hard to handle. It also makes it very viscous.

Lisa Margonelli: The...

 The sundew’s tiny leaves are equipped with a viscous secretion called mucilage. The ant is swiftly trapped in this goo. As she struggles, enzymes begin to digest her body. Special tentacles sense her movement and curl around her, clenching her in their suffocating grip.

The wild world of...

 We can use mathematical models to estimate the force that I'm applying to the quad. Once we know this force, we can also change the laws of physics, as far as the quad is concerned, of course. Here, the quad is behaving as if it were in a viscous fluid.

The astounding athletic...

 and the viscous streams of blood soaking the sheets are highly naturalistic. The blood spraying from the severed artery in Caravaggio’s looks stilted and artificial by comparison. And yet this isn't even her most celebrated painting of the scene.

Artemisia Gentileschi:...

 the lithosphere and asthenosphere. The lithosphere, which includes the crust and uppermost mantle, comprises the land around you. Beneath the lithosphere is the asthenosphere the highly viscous but solid rock portion of the upper mantle.

The Pangaea Pop-up -...

 glass particles would settle down into this wetlands area creating a thick mud a soupy mud viscous and unforgiving this quick mud could be perilous to any animal that happened upon it predators sink potential prey helplessly

Digging Up a Dinosaur...

 which causes instability. Viscosity works against disruption, making the flow laminar instead. In thick fluids such as honey, viscosity almost always wins. Less viscous substances like water or air are more prone to inertia,

Turbulence: One of the...

 superheated inside a closed container the resultant blend of SAP's and resins coalesces into a black viscous liquid with a pungent smell this is a traditional technique whose origins are lost but which has been passed down

How to Solve the...

 and even their hips, wrists, shoulders and so on. All these joints are synovial joints, and they're the most flexible ones in your body. The space between the two bones is filled with a viscous liquid,

Why do your knuckles...

 the viscous asphalt uses up from petroleum seeps miles below the pools resemble freshwater ponds but they can ensnare an animal that comes too close