Surfaces Quotes
116 quotes by 103 authors
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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
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
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'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
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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
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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
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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
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Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
— Ansel Adams
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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