Surface Quotes - Page 30

• Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Real, World

  Hajo Düchting, Wassily Kandinsky (1993). “Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting”, Taschen

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• I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?

  Yves Klein

  Fire, Flames, Burning

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings" by Yves Klein, in 1961; p. 67, 1974.

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• I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

  Yves Klein

  Want, Next, France

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.43, 1974.

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• Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Real, Eye, Alive

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• When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Home, People, Effort

  LeRoy Neiman (1974). “Art & lifestyle”

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• There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Vulgarity Is, Tragedy, Comedy

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• Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.

  David Whyte

  Giving Up, Insecurity, Definitions

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• The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.

  Richard Greenberg

  Ocean, Way, Biosphere

  "A subsurface ocean may provide water and heat" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. February 28, 2002.

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• Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there.

  Paula Rego

  Real, Fall, Dust

  John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

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• The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music - are intangible in their reaction upon us. There is an immediate sensuous appeal!

  John F. Carlson

  Eye, Soul, Transition

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• You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

  Jean Helion

  Dream, Tree, Bread

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• The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.

  James J. Gibson

  Heart, Space, Depth

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• The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Art, Loss, Age

  Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• Most art is just surface noise.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Criticism, Noise

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• Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Doe, World, Painting

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• With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  People, Emotion, Aging

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• Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Reality, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.132, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

  Rachel Carson

  Believe, Environmental, Poison

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'

  Rachel Carson

  Weed, Song, Believe

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that every single variant problematic karma will surface, which means you have the opportunity of passing through them all correctly, going over the ocean of the samsara and reaching nirvana yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Teacher, Ocean

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• And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world.

  Michael Frayn

  Humorous, Essence, Design

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• I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find some way to put things - meaning images and forms - together that highlighted some idea of what was underneath the surface of an image, what determined how something was seen.

  David Salle

  Photography, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

  Burton Silverman

  Two, People, Magic

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• There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.

  Janice Tanton

  Thinking, Light, Two

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• Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Shapes, Lines, May

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