Surface Quotes

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

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

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.

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

Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this.

God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

Many fires burn below the surface.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.