Surface Quotes

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The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are… — John F. Carlson
You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees. — Jean Helion
The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world… — James J. Gibson
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every… — Anton Ehrenzweig
Most art is just surface noise. — Walter Darby Bannard
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the… — Kay WalkingStick
Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and… — Peace Pilgrim
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for… — Rachel Carson
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. — Peace Pilgrim
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,… — Rachel Carson
When we consider a project, we really study it-not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project,… — Walt Disney
To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that every single variant… — Frederick Lenz
And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which… — Michael Frayn
I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find… — David Salle
I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive… — Burton Silverman
There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light… — Janice Tanton
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more… — John Paul Caponigro
When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of… — Jules Olitski
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface. — Georg Baselitz

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