Surface Quotes - Page 34

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

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Painting, Deny, Flats

  Julia Brown, Helen Frankenthaler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1998). “After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

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• Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Expression, Negative

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoet, 1996.

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• Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

  Jasper Johns

  Color, Names, Leaving

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoe, 1996.

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• Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Variation, Movement, Determined

  "Voices of German Expressionism" edited by Victor H. Miesel, Tate publishing, London, (p. 18), 2003.

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• I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy.

  Yves Klein

  Views, Trying, Different

  "Yves Klein, 1928-1962". Book by Yves Klein, p. 30, 1974.

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• In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Want, Way, Ends

  Jennifer Lopez (2014). “True Love”, p.20, Penguin

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• To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.

  Thomas Malthus

  Law, People, Evil

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

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• Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?

  Andy Partridge

  Children, Land, Names

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• The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

  David Ricardo

  Land, Class, Community

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.5

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• I wish that restaurateurs would choose simpler and smaller glassware. The tables on restaurants these days are way too crowded, and mostly because the plates are too odd looking and big, and the wine glasses are so gigantic that it takes up the whole surface area and you can't move. I prefer smaller glassware.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Moving, Wine, Glasses

  "Geoffrey Zakarian on Winning The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs". Interview with Susannah Chen, www.popsugar.com. December 20, 201.

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• The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

  James P. Cannon

  Political, Might, Revolution

  James P. Cannon (2000). “Fighting for Socialism in the 'American Century'”, p.148, Resistance Books

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• There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Games, Play, Skills

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 119), 1991.

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• I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

  James Nicoll

  Mind, Depth

  Livejournal post, 2005.

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

  Donald E. Brownlee

  Orbit, Gravity, Standing

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• Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

  Alton Tobey

  Doe, Alive, Canvas

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• 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.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Art, Building Up, Knives

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• Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.

  Jean Wilson

  Looks, Pieces, Paper

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• The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

  Abe Ajay

  Discovery, Numbers, Might

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• I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.

  Doug Dawson

  Gold, Texture, Way

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• Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.

  David Cobley

  Ideas, Two, Trying

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• For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

  Wanda Koop

  Interesting, Looks, Conventions

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• I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Ideas, Earth, Landscape

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• Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical — and maybe even experimental — grasp. Brand-new theoretical discoveries about extra dimensions have irreversibly changed how particle physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists now think about the world. The sheer number and pace of discoveries tells us that we've most likely only scratched the surface of the wondrous possibilities that lie in store. Ideas have taken on a life of their own.

  Lisa Randall

  Lying, Taken, Thinking

  "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions". Book by Lisa Randall, 2005.

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• The very aim of meditation is firstly subjugation of the mind, so that it can no longer be an obstacle to a clear vision of the Supreme cliché. Secondly, it is the full silencing of that mind, so that consciousness becomes similar to the mirror-like surface of a quiet lake or pool. I can see the real Reflection of Truth in it then, but not otherwise.

  Mouni Sadhu

  Real, Reflection, Lakes

  Mouni Sadhu (2005). “Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study”, p.196, Karnac Books

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• Ah, what balance is needed at
  the edges of such an abyss.
  I am left alone on the surface
  of a turning planet. What
  to do but, like Michelangelo's
  Adam, put my hand
  out into unknown space,
  hoping for the reciprocating touch?

  R. S. Thomas

  Hands, Space, Balance

  "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("Threshold", p. 110), 1981.

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