Inspirational Quote by Italo Calvino

“Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves…

— Josef Pieper

The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the…

— James J. Gibson

When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.

— Anonymous

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

— James Nicoll

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

— Alan Moore

Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins.…

— Andy Goldsworthy

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

— Thomas Carlyle

You can't be deep without a surface

— Jonathan Lethem

This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I…

— Claire Messud

“Underneath all things means that beneath the floorboards, in the depths, in the spaces between the pebbles or sandy floor that contain the pond,…

— Anne Lamott