1.
While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
Ivan Pavlov
Explore the depths of your investigation.
2.
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
Charles Horton Cooley
3.
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
4.
You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.
James Stewart
5.
The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.
Piet Mondrian
6.
God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.
Wolfgang Pauli
7.
I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
Claude Chabrol
9.
Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
Then the substratum will rise up to the top.
It is simple.
Follow this.
H. W. L. Poonja
10.
You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.
Marguerite Duras
11.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Robert Smithson
12.
A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
John Baldessari
13.
Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.
Louie Giglio
14.
I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
John Singer Sargent
15.
I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
Stephen Sondheim
16.
Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care
Edgar Schein
17.
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
Robert Musil
18.
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
Tillie Olsen
19.
In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.
Rudolf Carnap
20.
Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
Che Guevara
21.
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
James Bryant Conant
23.
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
Samuel Beckett
24.
I am left alone on the surface
of a turning planet.
R. S. Thomas
25.
I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.
Helen Frankenthaler
26.
It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.
Lisette Model
28.
Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.
Roger McDonald
29.
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.
Sri Aurobindo
30.
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.
Pierre Bonnard
31.
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
David Hockney
32.
Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
Gene Cernan
33.
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
34.
People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
Willa Cather
35.
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Henry David Thoreau
36.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
Ansel Adams
38.
The people who really love and care about you will always surface in time and stay in your life. Always
Jessie J
39.
I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.
David Lynch
41.
We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.
Brian Cox
42.
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
Neil Armstrong
44.
I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
Maurice Sendak
45.
Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.
Lisa Scottoline
46.
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
Paul Valery
47.
I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.
Lucinda Childs
48.
Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
Virginia Woolf
49.
Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.
Isabelle Huppert
50.
There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.
Adyashanti