Best Foreground Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.”

Important Roles Judging Ego Feds Leadership Roles Foreground

Author:Ruth Simmons

“The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.”

Men Should Art Facts Dream Lying Interest Demand Distance Deception Refuge Canvas Only Love Unattractive Foreground Far Distance

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.”

Ifs Wells Done Care Views Objects Distance Paint Take Care Well Done Foreground

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.”

Failing Treated Composition Foreground Afterthought

Author:Robert Genn

“Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.”

Art Ideas Middle Lows Distance Backgrounds Visible Works Of Art Horizon Foreground

Author:Mu Xin

“Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.”

Firsts Children Joy Forever Childhood Sorrow Achievement Mirrors Paint Afterlife Foreground Misadventure

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine harmoniously they give rise to perspective, foreground and background, and ultimately to emotion and other aesthetic attributes.”

Giving Art Form Lines Levels Emotion Perspective Elements Flow Paint Backgrounds Attributes Aesthetic Foreground Dabs

Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

“My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.”

Knows Inspiration Focus Yeah Defense Horizon Distraction Phases Foreground Deflation

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.”

Knows Doe Beautiful Artist Wish Painting Depends Smell Sincere Foreground

Author:Marcel Proust

“I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar.”

Trying Night Morning Painting Materials Summer Horse Green Size Eight Glad Nine Clock Sufficient Gates Cows Canvas Showers July Dew August Collars Carts Donkey Foreground Stoke

Author:John Constable

“Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.”

Thinking Facts Seems Personality South Warm Setting Settings Attractive Aggressive South Africa Inferiors Egypt Pyramids Olives Foreground

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.”

Men Years Long Book Body Behinds Silence Periods Late Productivity Distinction Unbroken Years Of Life Foreground

Book:Silences

Source: Silences

“I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.”

Knows Mean Persons Doe Courses Language Backgrounds Supposed To Be Love Someone Worldview Informing Foreground

Author:Aaron Belz

“The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.”

Light Sun Shining Clouds Edges Extremes Strikes Giants Revelations Horizon Rays Delicate Handful Spears Foreground

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.”

Spiritual Moving Purpose Achieve Evidence Backgrounds Foreground

Book:Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul

Source: Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul

“Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you're facing, his strategies for communicating with others will set you up to win every time.”

Matter Winning Issues Successful Communication No Matter What Strategy Simplicity Communicate Drs Nonviolent Communication Foreground Communicating With Others Successful Communication

Author:Tony Robbins

“I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.”

Art Lines Curves Elegance Foreground

Author:H. R. Giger

“The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.”

Poetry Literature Process Reader Originals Composition Foreground

Book:The Language of Inquiry

Source: The Language of Inquiry

“I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.”

Class Achievement Rose Backgrounds Risen Lower Class Foreground

Author:Marvin L. Cohen

“One of the important things about religion is that it is a sphere which is partially protected from selection. Religious creativity occurs when people pull out of the whole selectivity issue. Becoming celibate - obviously you couldn't be less selective that that. Yes, selection is always in the background. But it's not always there in the foreground. If you don't understand that, you're missing a lot.”

People Ifs Important Whole Religious Creativity Issues Missing Becoming Important Things Backgrounds Spheres Protected Selection Selective Foreground

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high.”

Ifs Knows Poet Standards Expectations England Backgrounds Enormous Ireland Fabric Woven Foreground

Author:David Whyte

“It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.”

World Kind Mean Country Feelings Happens Moving Natural My Own Particular Storytelling Rats Inclination Natural World Foreground

Author:Sean Penn

“Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.”

Way Play Sports Goal Achieve Extremes Adrenaline Foreground Extreme Sports

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.”

Thinking Want Ideas Negative Therapy Songwriting Songwriters Connotation Foreground

Author:Beth Orton

“Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.”

Certain Belief Steps Weakness Foreground Improbability

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“With humans you would say, "Don't stand over there." and that would probably work. With puppets, you can't stand over there because you would see the guy underneath. So it is a lot of foreground stuff.”

Humans Guy Stuff Puppets Foreground

Author:James Bobin

“I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.”

Hate I Hate Backgrounds Foreground Background Music

Author:David Hockney

“It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.”

Facts Movement Curious Revolutionary Free Love Foreground

Book:On Religion

Source: On Religion

“If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic dimensions like electronic ambient music, it's pushes all of that colour to the foreground so you hear little every atom of sound.”

Ifs Littles Individual Sound Materials Colour Dimensions Atoms Load Foreground Ambient Ambient Music

Author:Max Richter

“At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be incredibly dramatic and incredibly agonised - smoking, burning, incredible compression. In the first year we stayed on the ground and went everywhere. But then in order to discover whether this was the whole story, we rented a helicopter. And we began to understand that this is not chaos but a highly modern system that had been abandoned, then at some point went into reversal, then slowly came out of it.”

Ifs Years Firsts Whole Stories Order Cities Modern Chaos Incredibles Burning Dramatic Smoking Abandoned Helicopters Reversal Foreground Compression

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.”

Thinking Way Mean Wanted Desire Responsibility Principles Limits Asking Agency Ethical Taking Responsibility Subjectivity Foreground Ethical Principles

Author:Richard Marshall

“So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "What is that difference?" I started looking at the way that a figure in the foreground works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings and saw how much has to do with what the figure owns or possesses. I wanted to break away from that sense in which there's the house, the wife, and the cattle, all depicted in equal measure behind the sitter.”

Way Wanted House Differences Behinds Careers Break Saws Wife Century Figures Painting Equal Backgrounds Defined Nineteenth Century Cattle Foreground

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.”

World Giving Light Moving Stuff Term Acting Crosses Performances Cameras Photographer Backgrounds Lenses Filters Moving In Foreground

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.”

Ifs Knows Life Needs Mind Happens Success Energy Results Focus Achieve Various Active Focused Things Happen Backgrounds Cricket Frame Of Mind Sportsman Cricketers Foreground

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”

Mind Literature Backgrounds Landscape Foreground American Landscape

Author:Edith Wharton

“This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.”

“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”

“My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.”

Writing Real Backgrounds Imaginary Foreground

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

Lasts Found Deals Clear Fellows Backgrounds Conception Refuge Thrust Scoundrels Foreground

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the stars are all as small as three-penny bits. I don't really believe in astronomy, except as a complicated description of part of the course of human and possibly animal sensation. I apply my perspective not merely to space but also to time. In time the world will cool and everything will die; but that is a long time off still and its present value at compound discount is almost nothing.”

“We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.”

Doe Important Pain Sound Painting Perspective Speech Series Deeper Defined Planes Phrases Standing Out Foreground Important Words

Book:Building A Character

Source: Building A Character

“The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture”

Men Kind Art Seems Artist Creative Ego Creative Art Creative Artists Foreground

Book:Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

“Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dry as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos.”

Shows Earth Space Alive Sky Moon Breaths Blue Distance Photograph Bones Surface Rising Dry Cosmos Floating Catching Astonishing Blue Sky Foreground Membranes

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.”

People Wisdom Pain Young Growing Sympathy Vehicle Growing Pains Foreground

Book:Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems

Source: Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems

“If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.”

Ifs May Character Fiction Painting Conflict Harmony Backgrounds Setting Settings Composition Foreground

Book:Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

Source: Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

“There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships”

Life Backgrounds Continuity Foreground

Author:Lyonel Feininger

“The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.”

World Landscape Restaurants Finest Inns Foreground

Author:Samuel Johnson

“If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.”

Ifs Subjects Objects Backgrounds Opposition Taoism Complement Foreground

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.”

Strong Religious Backgrounds Very Strong Diminish Religious Love Foreground Early Work

Author:Chaim Potok

“Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.”

Ifs Art Hands Reality Would Be Creativity Perspective Spells Closest Vulgar Foreground

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

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