Surface Quotes
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.
When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.
I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.
The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable.
I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.
When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.
Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.
It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.
The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.
A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.
To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
When you're a teenager, you don't want to bring your emotions to the surface and talk about them. You want to push them away.
If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.
I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.
Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.
... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.
The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.
The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.
It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.
And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.
