Surfaces Quotes

116 quotes by 103 authors

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in… — Ansel Adams
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of… — Sam Abell
What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh.… — Carolyn Parkhurst
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of… — Iannis Xenakis
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena… — Walter Houser Brattain
Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I don't care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn't for you. True chemistry is more than intellectual compatibility.… — Judith Orloff
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the movement… — Emile Argand
A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn reflect each other, bouncing light… — Ross Lovegrove
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent… — Joseph Campbell
Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil… — Jorie Graham
If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be… — Jana Novotna
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. — Ansel Adams
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good… — Richard Avedon
Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard… — Jim Courier
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve… — Steve Pavlina
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat… — Colin Neenan
These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to have had simple… — Don Berliner

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