Surface Quotes

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

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.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

Many fires burn below the surface.

Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this.

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.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

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.

Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.

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 principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

The people who really love and care about you will always surface in time and stay in your life. Always

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

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.

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

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.

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.

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.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

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.

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.