Backgrounds Quote by Lyonel Feininger

“I have thus defined the concept of the “Background” as the set of nonintentional or preintentional capacities that enable intentional states of function. But”

— John Rogers Searle

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

— Robert Edmond Jones

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

— Dexter Fletcher

Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal,…

— Jay Maisel

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between…

— Kehinde Wiley

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

— Robert Genn

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

— Robert Genn

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

— Jan Tschichold

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space,…

— Kehinde Wiley

I don't come from a flashy film background. TV's been a great home for me, and being able to do that work kind of…

— Greg Yaitanes