“With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.” PeopleKnowsYoungEmotionKnow HowAgingSurface Author:Rineke Dijkstra
“The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.” IfsKnowsNeedsMindBelieveArtRealHardStatesPhilosophyInspirationEyeI BelieveProcessDealsEmotionVisionStruggleSeeingBirthDepthCome UpSurfaceReformHard TimesEtcCopiesOverwhelmingMy ThoughtsUnderwater Author:Hiroko Sakai
“When you're a teenager, you don't want to bring your emotions to the surface and talk about them. You want to push them away.” WantEmotionSurfaceTeenager Author:Emma Roberts
“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.” MomentsArtistEasyDifficultSimpleEmotionFocusTalentPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSurfaceMediumsFixedNativeContradictionConceptionInstructionRecallsBlankFormidableShutters Author:Edward Steichen
“Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly simple expedient of the iceberg principle - three-fourths of the substance under the surface. He comes closer that way to retaining the magic of the original, unexpressed idea or emotion, which is always more stirring than any words. But just try and do it!” WayWritingTryingIdeasSoulSeemsThreeSimpleEmotionPrinciplesMagicExcitingOriginalsSurfaceSubstanceDamnPositivelyStirringIcebergRetaining Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever” ArtMomentsActorsLosesActingEmotionAudienceForeverHonestSourceBecomingPerformancesSurfaceLofty Author:Masiela Lusha
“When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and see if you can bring that back to the surface, so that you can then literally hand it off to the character, and then let him run with it.” IfsCharacterHandsRunningEmotionSurfaceFake Author:Jackie Earle Haley
“In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.” LifeEmotionWaveSurfaceOrganismsRippleShort LifeMomentaryLife SpanVery Short Life Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment