The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface. — Bradley Chicho Copy Share Image
Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form:… — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
Some people look at the surface, while some see what's deep down. The most important thing is that the film should somehow… — Esra Saydam Copy Share Image
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower. — Laozi Copy Share Image
A complex, surface. Laid out right before our eyes. Everything, makes sense. Now that you are by my side. — Kerli Copy Share Image
Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I think my view is rather more radical than Pete Mandik's. Both of us want to show that colour perception doesn't transcend… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
He is spent. His mind is mercury again, its brief surge of humanity melting into an oily residue on its surface, and… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom… — Alister Hardy Copy Share Image
Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
