Surface Quotes

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Most art is just surface noise.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles.

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!

To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

An enlightened entertainer, via story, casts her line into the souls of others, hooks their heart, and pulls their greater potential to the surface.

There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit.

You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.

At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.

My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

If you just read Leviticus on the surface, you may think it's just a bunch of grumpy irrelevant rules; but, it's actually the way God gave his people access to himself.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.

In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

No matter how many stones you throw at the water's surface, no matter how much you step on a shadow, the water's surface does not disappear, the shadow does not disappear.

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face.

Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.