Surface Quotes

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Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If… — Thomas Merton
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and… — Eli Siegel
During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience. — Jean Piaget
Golden is a surface colour. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. — Albert Pinkham Ryder
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations.… — Paul Cezanne
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see… — Paul Klee
Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the… — William Merritt Chase
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. — Pierre Bonnard
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work… — Philip Guston
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. — Wassily Kandinsky
I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what… — Yves Klein
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully… — Yves Klein
I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. — Yves Klein
Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a… — Kazimir Malevich
When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when… — LeRoy Neiman
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. — Barbara Stanwyck
Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to… — David Whyte
The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust — Richard Greenberg
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge… — Paula Rego

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