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Source: On painting and On sculpture: The Latin texts of De pictura and De statua

“You can looking at that glass of water, not as a glass of water, but as paint on a two-dimensional surface. It's not just a question of looking, but of doing, in relation to this, in relation to that, in relation to the space between things.”

Two Water Space Relation Paint Glasses Surface Space Between

Author:Malcolm Morley

“I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human - but then you always have to conform to the social conventions around you, and those two things get to be juxtaposed against each other. You're being human, but you're trapped within the social convention of the time.”

Ifs Humans Two Social Periods Drama Dancing Surface Two Things Conventions Trapped Being Human Conform

Author:Jenna Coleman

“I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.”

Thinking Real Universe Actors Secret Like You Directors Theater Cameras Surface Real Life Invisible Fascinating Exploring Lenses Microscopes Camera Lenses

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.”

World Moments Use Reality Effort Cutting Appearance Deeper Surface Concentration Here And Now

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.”

Looks Individual Effort Acting Team Surface Significance Solo Below The Surface Team Effort

Book:The Complete 101 Collection

Source: The Complete 101 Collection

“You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.”

People Knows Trouble Surface Around The Corner Scratching The Surface

Author:James Stewart

“Belief is the capacity to see not only life's surfaces but also its holy depths, to be able to look at events unfolding around us but also to look through them, above them and beneath them to preceive what is truly happening.”

Looks Able Belief Events Holy Happenings Capacity Depth Surface Unfolding

Author:Thomas G. Long

“Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?”

Clear Seven Surface Reviewers Iceberg Beneath The Surface

Book:Letters of Delmore Schwartz

Source: Letters of Delmore Schwartz

“Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.”

Doe Facts Problem Energy Causes Poor Levels Surface Mood Going Away Unstable Beneath The Surface Energy Levels

Book:Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

“What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.”

Feels Comfort Foundation Chaos Surface Anarchy

Book:Choice Notes on the Psalms

Source: Choice Notes on the Psalms

“The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.”

Ifs Should Two Sometimes Bigs Might Running Three Water Half Sea Feet Lows Hundred Bottom Surface Torn Vessel Extending Reefs Iceberg

Author:Edward Smith

“Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice whispering to me in the depths of my consciousness is saying exactly the same thing as the voice whispering to you in your consciousness. 'I want an earth that is healthy, a world at peace, and a heart filled with love.' It doesn't matter if your skin is brown or white or black, or whether you speak English, Japanese, or Malayalam - the voice, says the Gita, is the same in every creature, and it comes from your true self.”

Source: The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment

“Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?”

Source: The economy of nature: rethinking the connections between ecology and economics

“It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.”

Enough Happens Christian Church Knowing Conversation Intelligent Surface Believer Christian Life Vulnerable Deceiver Uninformed Foyers Intelligent Conversation

Author:David Jeremiah

“No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.”

Understanding Miracle Surface Explaining

Author:Leonard Read

“House GOP Leader John Boehner on Monday rightly sounded the alarm over billions in stimulus tax dollars that could potentially go to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). But the Republican leadership has only scratched the surface over what amounts to a bottomless slush fund for a bigger coalition of housing entitlement thugs.”

“You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to make armor or break a car window. You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch but the best crutch I could have.”

Knows Kind Use Purpose Can Do Brain Break Car Beats Window Instruments Surface All Kinds Nails Hammers Bass Armor Crutches

Author:Stephen Bruner

“Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else.”

Knows Wells Stills Black Water Grief Secret Darkness Clear Source Cold Drink Rounds Surface Breathe Thrown Slips Coins

Author:David Whyte

“Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization, but something as yet unborn, unseen, unheard, except by the inner eye, the inner ear. He is not just removing apparent surfaces from some external object, he is removing apparent surface from the Self, revealing his original nature.”

Self Eye Artist Objects Civilization Ears Originals Ancient Deeper Surface Unseen Revealing Unborn Recovering Unheard Ancient Civilizations Uncovering Archaeologists

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“We have within us enormous reserves of trapped potential. Our natural urges have been so constrained by the accommodations of living that we each have a smoldering volcano just below the surface. To enable this force to erupt in a healthy, open, and positive manner is a momentous act.”

Has Beens Force Natural Healthy Surface Enormous Urges Trapped Reserves Volcanoes Accommodations Below The Surface

Author:Michele Cassou

“Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.”

Way Art Process Activity Reflection Art Is Connections Essence Notes Musical Patterns Surface Concentration Contrast Mundane Commentary Affinity Musical Notes

Author:Russell Sherman

“Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.”

Heart Individual Audience Pieces Style Perfection Window Surface Singers Flawless Idiosyncrasies Individual Style

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.”

World Expression Roots Depth Surface Colour

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”

Humans Long Light Action Natural Opinion Alive Air Conscience Direct Medicine Injustice Creator Surface Tension Covered Exposed Exposure Ugliness Direct Action Covered Up

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.”

Humans Imagination Powerful Planets Glory Surface Human Imagination

Author:Terence McKenna

“Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.”

Looks Littles Wonderful Depth Surface Awe Honour Trembling Awfulness Deepness Leading On

Author:Saint Augustine

“I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!”

World Heart Book Dream Faces Hate Church This World Fairs I Hate Surface Horrible Nightmare Righteousness Hollowness Falseness Chicanery

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.”

Planets Tables Surface Manners Eras Excellent Gentleman Genocide Table Manners

Author:Terence McKenna

“The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.”

Men Facts Lying Imagination Planets Exercise Theater Crisis Seeking Surface Dimensions Fitting Wrecks Dynamics Eco Lying Men

Author:Terence McKenna

“The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.”

Humans Force Imagination Technology Planets Safety Surface Unleashed Conjunctions Human Imagination

Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

“It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.”

Reason Facts Individual Belief Attitude Mystery Surface Magazines Odd Unconscious Reports Establishment Economist Psychedelic Psychedelic Experience Time Magazine Hallucinogens

Author:Terence McKenna

“It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.”

Humans Seems Language Organization Surface

Author:Terence McKenna

“Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful even if the surface is ugly. Truthful is he who says what is true even if the truth is ugly. Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior without first weighing the interior. And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out without first judging what he sees in the mirror.”

Ifs Men Firsts Beautiful He Man Judging Truth Is Mirrors Ugly Surface Truthful Interiors Exterior Weighing

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.”

Ifs Knows Wells Persons Bigs Desire Fighting Quality Surface Likes Sparks Dislike Superficial Stereotype

Author:Dorothy West

“What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?”

Writing Firsts Home Turns Views Surface Memoir Repeats Mars Rockets Astronaut Voyages Back Home

Book:Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration

Source: Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration

“Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future.”

Knows May Home Earth Teach Mystery Planets Keys Warm Surface Our Future Wet Mars Planet Earth Rust Live And Learn

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.”

World Extraordinary Surface Dialogue Internals Collapse Guarded Our Words Facets

Book:The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De

Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De

“Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.”

Mind Silence Greater Depth Surface Greater Power

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The surface below your feet is so special. It is not like a boxing ring, not like a wrestling mat, it's its own thing, and when I am there, I am floating, I am moving with total freedom, I am free. And when you know, when you just know you are going to win, like I do, there is no better feeling.”

Knows Feelings Moving Winning Feet Special Surface Rings Boxing Wrestling Floating Boxing Ring

Author:Conor McGregor

“In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.”

Problem Difficult Surface Kitchen Just One Cockroaches

Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.”

People World Writing Years War Done Stories Reading Records Army Surface War Of The Worlds Historian World War Ii World War I Scratches Writing And Reading

Author:Rick Atkinson

“Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.”

People Ideas Hands Sound Style Definitions Pops Surface Bowie Second Hand

Author:Brian Eno

“Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.”

Keys Computer Window Surface

Author:Bill Gates

“I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.”

“I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.”

Mad Surface Commit Impulse Manhattan Perversion Interstellar

Author:Woody Allen

“Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.”

“The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.”

People Space Interesting Cameras Surface

Author:David Hockney

“I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.”

Said Photograph Surface Flats

Book:True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney

Source: True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney

“If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish some kind of presence and understanding. I will say, Try to forget I'm here. I won't ask you to pose, I won't ask you to do anything. It's important that I just be allowed to be around, to be present. Photographing people requires a willingness to be rejected. So, I think the best approach is to be honest and direct. Very often, I tell them, You don't know me. There's no reason why you should trust me... the only thing I can promise is that I'll try to do the most honest work I can.”

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