“Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.” KindSoulRealityAbleFacesHumanityNamesObjectsGlassesSurfaceMaskVolumeConnotationVases Author:Fabio Novembre
“As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.” PeopleKnowsWorldSoulSufferingSickAppearanceSurfaceVery Happy Author:Frederick Lenz
“The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music - are intangible in their reaction upon us. There is an immediate sensuous appeal!” SoulEyeFormSurfaceReactionsAppealsContemplationColourSubtleTransitionIntangibleSensuous Author:John F. Carlson
“It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.” WorldSoulSeemsGrowthAirTreeOceanAll ThingsBottomSurfaceOur WorldFeedingFathomSubmarinesShrimpDeep OceanOffal Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long - the care of cares - the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven - and straight you find a new stratum there.” LongSoulCareLyingHeavenAnxietySurfaceYour SoulLayersRadiance Book:Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Source: Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
“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