Surface Quotes - Page 30

• The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Lying, Trying

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• When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.

  Dennis Wholey

  Enjoy

  Dennis Wholey (1998). “The Miracle of Change”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Time, Texas, Years

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• The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold surfaces, must efficiently contribute to the due guidance of chemical reactions.

  Frederick Gowland Hopkins

  Cells, Guidance, Geography

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• ...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and heavenly fire of the Holy Spirit? Or does it lean toward Jewish superstition? Is its surface piety something which has come down from bloated worldly philosophy? We must examine this most carefully, doing as the apostle bids us: 'Do not believe in every spirit, but make sure to find out if spirits are from God'.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Philosophy, Believe

  "Conferences".

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• A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

  Dolly Parton

  Tree, Survival, Stargazing

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• You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.

  Francoise Giroud

  Nature, Reflection, Landscape

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• I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Age, Scratches

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.

  Dave Sim

  Mean, Thinking, Feet

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• The last thing to collapse is the surface.

  Albert Einstein

  Lasts, Collapse

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• 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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• If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

  James Whistler

  Photography, Kings, Flower

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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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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• That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Self, Shadow

  1844 'So fair so sweet', stanza 2 (published 1845).

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• No matter how many stones you throw at the water's surface, no matter how much you step on a shadow, the water's surface does not disappear, the shadow does not disappear.

  Kohta Hirano

  Water, Shadow, Doe

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• The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. … All history is taken in by stones.

  Susan Griffin

  Taken, Rain, Eye

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.8, Open Road Media

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