“Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.” PleasureResultsEffortBeautySeeingFashionMissingReturnLaborSurfaceForfeit Author:Roderick E. Stevens
“Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.” IfsWantLooksPersonsBeautifulFunCommonBeautySkinsBoringSurfaceHaving FunSkin DeepBeauty Is Skin DeepBeauty Is Only Skin DeepBeauty Skin Deep Author:Amanda Peet
“If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.” IfsWorldImportantScienceAttitudeBeautyGreaterImaginePerspectiveHorrorApproachGloryCuriositySizeHumbleSurfaceComplexitySchemesShrinksMundanePreoccupation Author:Daniel Dennett
“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.” IfsMenWorldFeelsEarthBitsBeautyFourThousandPropertySurfaceMilesOwnershipHandsomeThousand Miles Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition
“All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.” DoeDifferentFormJusticeEmotionBeautyParticularElementsEternalEternityAbsolutesSurfaceManifestationAbstractionTransitoryEternal BeautyDifferent Beauty Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.” WorldEndsBodyFormTurnsWomenBeautyCitizensLongingPhotographSurfaceRedemptionCelebrationPollutionIdenticalIrresistibleJunkiePoignantProbingBelow The Surface Book:On photography Source: On photography
“Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.” LifeSeemsPayAttentionBeautyVisionSeeingConnectionsDepthSurfacePay AttentionAweFlatsInterdependence Author:Colin Neenan
“Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?” HumansStillsSoulArtistChallengesBeautySubjectsSkinsEssenceSurfaceAttractiveStill Life Author:Richard Corliss
“It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.” WayGivingSelfAgeBeautyExpressionSurfaceFeaturesDistinctionFinestPersistent Author:Karl Blind
“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.” GivingArtStoriesSongPleasureBeautyMysterySolutionsSurpriseSurfaceInnocenceRevelationsAestheticPuzzlesConcealedCatharsis Author:Stephen Sondheim