A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never… — Felix Baumgartner Copy Share Image
Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you're facing, his strategies for communicating… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
One of the important things about religion is that it is a sphere which is partially protected from selection. Religious creativity occurs… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
