“ Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul? ”
- Richard Corliss- Copy
- 464
“ We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ”
- Konstantin Stanislavisky- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ”
- Jacob Braude- Copy
- 2K
“ Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
- 2K
“ Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance. ”
- Graham Clarke- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself. ”
- Franz Xavier Kroetz- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 418
“ Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. ”
- Marcus Arelius Antoninus- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. ”
- Vladimir Nabokov- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath. ”
- Jacob Braude- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need. ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. ”
- Paul Goodman- Copy
- 686
“ Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
- 3K
“ Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. ”
- Nicholson Baker- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. ”
- Peace Pilgrim- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I… chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 136
“ Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
- 3.9K
“ NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces. ”
- O. J. Simpson- Copy
- 979
“ Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces. ”
- Carolyn Kizer- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 2.1K
“ There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
- 3.3K
“ When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 1K
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