Surface Quotes - Page 24

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

Lisette Model

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In order to reveal the gifts that lie beneath the surface of your heart’s greatest desires, you must look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the Divine, and bring forth your soul’s legacy into the present moment.

Debbie Ford

Lying, Heart, Order

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What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example - like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist's work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism.

John Yau

Mean, Artist, Talking

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No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Long, Water, Lines

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You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart.

Ma Jaya

Heart, Giving, Quality

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As I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come...I'd like to just (say) what I believe history will record. That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. As we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. "Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."

Gene Cernan

Moon, Destiny, Men

"EVA-3 Close-out". Apollo 17 Flight Journal, www.hq.nasa.gov. 1995.

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Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Deepak Chopra

Moving, Moon, Water

Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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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.

Chadwick Boseman

Believe, Writing, Tired

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

Olivia Colman

Kids, Emotional, Equilibrium

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His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.

Blake Crouch

Halloween, Cutting, Perfection

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Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Nature, Wall, Blue

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements, its lawful forces-tensions, which can be discovered in given objects and of the logical structures of same-education toward clear observation and clear rendering of the contexts, whereby surface phenomena are an introductory step towards the three-dimensional.

Wassily Kandinsky

Drawing, Perception, Training

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Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

Vernon Howard

Personality, Identity, Might

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The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.

Nancy Kline

Reality, Ideas, Brain

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We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

Johannes Stark

Experience, Rays, Atoms

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There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Science, Sea, Goggles

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Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

Hans Christian Andersen

Kings, Ocean, Blue

Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “The Little Mermaid”, p.4, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beautiful, Art, Character

1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

Jimmy Breslin

Beautiful, Clouds, Mirrors

How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer (1975). Usually quoted as "smoke and mirrors."

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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.

Jean Baudrillard

Men, Events, Mouths

Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above
[so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.

Jackson Pollock

Moving, Use, Ease

Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

Lee Strobel

Pain, Giving, Suffering

"Interview: Lee Strobel Makes Case for Faith ... Again". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. September 25, 2008.

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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

Stephen Sondheim

Beauty, Song, Art

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It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works.

Georges Cuvier

Passion, Mean, Past

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The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.

Neil Armstrong

Science, Moon, Toes

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