Surface Quotes

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Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence… — Joan Mitchell
For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just… — Rudy Rucker
The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting… — Andy Goldsworthy
I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is… — Andy Goldsworthy
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. — Lynn Margulis
Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some… — David Douglas
Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was… — Elisabeth Eaves
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface. — Georges Seurat
It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! Weâ€™re not even scratching the surface… — Clifton Anderson
I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains… — Edward E. Barnard
I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon. — Rick Reilly
The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails… — Albert Pinkham Ryder
Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process.… — Pauline Oliveros
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and… — Richard P. Feynman
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower. — Laozi
The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and secret… — Michel de Certeau
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual… — Eric Fischl
Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us, the… — Robert Macfarlane

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