Foreground Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the… — Frank P. Ramsey
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which… — Henry De la Beche
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… — Constantin Stanislavski
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him… — Raymond Chandler
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the… — Lewis Thomas
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make… — Wislawa Szymborska
If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in… — Janet Burroway
There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships — Lyonel Feininger
The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground. — Samuel Johnson
If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object. — Frederick Lenz
There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly… — Chaim Potok
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was… — Brian Eno
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your… — Ruth Simmons
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. — Robert Genn

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