Surfaces Quotes

116 quotes by 103 authors

When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to… — Gerhard Richter
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker
Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves,… — Carolyn Kizer
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as… — Albert Einstein
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces,… — Lawrence Hargrave
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think… — Peter Zumthor
Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its… — Fabio Novembre
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
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
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
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
Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws;… — Honore de Balzac
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the… — Hans Hofmann
I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am… — Rafael Nadal
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so… — Michael Nesmith
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual… — Steven Pinker
Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking… — Jerry Saltz
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the… — Edna O'Brien
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… — Edward Abbey

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