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“I'm a constant editor. Every few months or so I make a ton of 4x6 prints. I put them on a magnetic board and I live with them for a while to see what bubbles to the surface. A lot of this was part of Disco Night originally, and I suddenly started realizing, "If I keep working on this because I'm not done and I put all that in Disco Night, how can this be one book? Is it going to be too long and bloated and crazy?".”

Ifs Long Book Done Night Realizing Crazy Months Constant Surface Boards Print Editors Bubbles Magnetic Disco

Author:Peter van Agtmael

“As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.”

Soul Hard Eye Turns Grows Causes Water Natural Wind Source Return Breaths Wings Surface Setting Settings Streams His Eyes Passages Loved Ones Echoes Smooth Routes Feathers Arriving Rebound

Author:Plato

“Oftentimes, misunderstandings and antagonism surfaces most strongly when economic times are tough. And that's not surprising. If everybody is working and feeling good and making money and buying a new house and a big screen TV, you're less worried about what other folks are doing.”

Ifs Feelings Bigs House Economic Tvs Tough Folks Surface Screens Feel Good Making Money Worried Buying Surprising Misunderstanding Antagonism Big Screen

Author:Barack Obama

“There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back into the earth, which is where it comes from, which are related to the whole concept of I Am. So there's that one below-surface idea, and then there's these other practical and more pragmatic ideas about how the light functions and the geometry and mathematics behind the reverberation of light from the surface outward.”

Ideas Whole Light Earth Certain Behinds Projects Concepts Function Mathematics Glasses Surface Practicals Related Sand Geometry Pragmatic Reverberation

Author:Tavares Strachan

“Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For every one of those decisions, maybe there's another decision that could have been made, should have been made.”

Should Years Has Beens Made Soul Earth Decision Should Have Philosophical Surface Practicals Could Have Been Should Have Been Ideological Altered Coordinates

Author:Arundhati Roy

“I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness, which is so evident everywhere in England is perhaps more dangerous than it would appear on the surface.”

Feels Wonderful Dangerous England Surface Evident Neatness Gentility

Author:Sylvia Plath

“Even though I'm appalled when racism surfaces, and I personally don't agree with certain policy solutions and a lot of what they believe in, as someone who is very concerned about reinvigorating democracy the Tea Parties are an answer to what I asked for.”

Believe Certain Answers Party Democracy Policy Racism Solutions Concerned Agree Surface Tea Tea Party

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent. It probably takes me longer to write things, but it's very important to me that the writing itself be good.”

Giving Writing Trying Wells Important Nice Written Reader Clean Surface Be Good Take Me Transparent Well Written

Author:Shelby Steele

“We've seen the bankruptcy of many newspapers. We've seen a further erosion of the line between news and entertainment. But I do believe that there is reason to hope that over time we will see the higher-quality journalism rise to the surface.”

Believe Reason Lines Quality Higher News Entertainment Surface Newspapers Journalism Bankruptcy Erosion

Author:Al Gore

“Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.”

Looks Doe Hard Shows Water Surface Ducks Gliding Paddling Working Very Hard

Author:Salman Khan

“I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the physical things change, but inside, things haven't changed, really. This is always the challenge of this kind of community, to make a harmony between the cultural traditions and the modernity of modern life.”

Kind Country Seems Community Challenges Modern Havens Changed Tradition Harmony Surface Kicks Things Change Modern Life Modernity Physical Things

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.”

“We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.”

Action Alive Direct Creator Surface Tension Protest Disobedience Civil Disobedience Direct Action

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.”

Trying Kind Use Painting Creating Surface Print Printer

Author:Jeff Koons

“Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.”

Firsts Done Artist Cameras Photographer Surface Eras Narrative Renaissance

Author:David LaChapelle

“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.”

Humanity Quality Records Photography All Things Photograph Surface Latent

Book:Ansel Adams: photographs

Source: Ansel Adams: photographs

“Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.”

Thinking Heart Sometimes Matter Enjoy Photographer Surface Revealing

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.”

People Knows Littles Art I Can Can Do Surface Works Of Art

Author:John Banville

“You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.”

Ifs Knows Whole Fighting Know How Elements Fishes Blow Heavy Surface Eggs Bubbles Floating Floats Nests Repairing

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.”

Life Inspirational Two Concerned Flow Curiosity Appearance Surface Permanent Odd Momentary Beneath The Surface Consecutive

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.”

Thinking May Ability Offers Computer Communicate Surface Bad Things Cabinets Typewriters Cyber Filing Ability To Communicate Hermaphrodites Filing Cabinet

Author:David Mamet

“I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.”

Knows Believe Said Book Turns I Believe Secret Novel Written Figures Pages Surface Satisfied Novelists Exposed

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.”

Ifs Said I Can Lying Fall Sleep Surface Concrete Time Of Day

Author:Kevin McCloud

“I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.”

Knows World Way Long Problem Internet Connected Surface Awful No Problem Connecting Long Way Enlightening Great Times Informing Connecting The World

Author:Alan Moore

“Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.”

People Ifs Looks Worry Aging Surface Retirement Funny Retirement

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'”

People Thinking Levels Roles Surface Passive

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.”

World America Culture Language Force Century Agree Surface Empires Pushing Spain 17th Century Pushy

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.”

Thinking Ends Difficult Levels Surface Optimistic Alright

Author:Emily Mortimer

“A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.”

Home Past Surface Mortals Novelists

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.”

Thinking Wells I Can Play Might Player Surface Clay Specialists

Author:Rafael Nadal

“It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.”

Way May Said Literature Pages Thirds Surface One Way Iceberg

Book:Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

Source: Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

“People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.”

People Way Kind Real Use Understanding Intellectual Property Surface New Ways Estates Defining Intellectual Property

Author:Michael Nesmith

“Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.”

Firsts Believe Ends Earth Together I Believe Wonderful Sea Atheism Positive Atheism Surface Worms Cliffs Acres

Book:The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

“There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.”

Mind Seems Culture Fingers Track Pops Surface These Days Giants Brushes Pop Culture Comes And Goes Snaps Popular Culture Fuzzy Notoriety

Author:Susan Orlean

“Vanity is but the surface.”

Surface Vanity

Author:Blaise Pascal

“While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.”

Surface

Author:Ivan Pavlov

“The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.”

World Body Communicate Surface Passing Passings Organisms Tubes Passing Through Canals

Author:Ivan Pavlov

“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.”

Ifs Want Looks Persons Beautiful Fun Common Beauty Skins Boring Surface Having Fun Skin Deep Beauty Is Skin Deep Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Beauty Skin Deep

Author:Amanda Peet

“I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.”

Feels Surface Mysterious Beneath The Surface

Author:Steven Pinker

“There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.”

World Humans Art Body Universal Corners Surface Visuals Decoration Visual Art Corners Of The World

Author:Steven Pinker

“The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.”

People Hard Moving Hours Planets Thousand Machines Surface Nuclear Miles Tire Explosions Spinning Back And Forth Rubber Thousand Miles

Author:Joe Rogan

“If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.”

People Ifs Looks Hands Party Movement Surface Tea Sophisticated Economist August Tea Party Hayek Tea Party Movement Von Hayek

Author:Karl Rove

“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.”

People Firsts Kind Two Matter Earth Position Drinking Surface Relative

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.”

People Real Character Hate Passion Emotion Surface Likes Dislike Pretentious Real Character

Author:David O. Russell

“Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.”

Want Mind Art Might Names Forget Objects Surface Unexpected Infinity Triggers Mushrooms

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.”

World Art Ideas Matter Reason Form Subjects Color Skills Originals Surface Scales Composition Cliche Subject Matter Art World

Author:Jerry Saltz

“If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.”

People Ifs Littles Country Problem Hate Given Chance Miracle Solve Surface Basements

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”

Life Inspirational Sea Ocean Wave Surface Beach Living My Life Ocean Sea Sea Life Ocean Wave Light Waves

Book:Civilization and Ethics

Source: Civilization and Ethics

“I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.”

Knows Know How Paint Surface Advise Renaissance Mural

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”

Art Painting Critics Surface Weather Flats Exposing Cold Weather Painting Art Painting And Art

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

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