Foreground Quotes
37 quotes by 34 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships
— Lyonel Feininger
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The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
— Charles Webster Hawthorne
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
— Robert Genn
Who Wrote These Foreground Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 37 Foreground Quotes, led by these top contributors: