Surface Quotes

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A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up… — Rosamond Lehmann
Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface. — Confucius
Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to… — Cesar Chavez
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it… — Paul Cezanne
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our… — Oliver Goldsmith
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth,… — Carl Safina
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities. — John Zerzan
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard
You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself… — Rudolf Steiner
Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple… — Dave Eggers
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution,… — Barbara Hepworth
Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The… — Jack Ruby
There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that… — Roger Deakins
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. — Alan Kay
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to… — Steven Pressfield
However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again. — Jean-Marie Le Pen
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… — Richard Corliss
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface… — Gregory Crewdson
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise… — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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