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Surface Quotes - Page 2

I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.

I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.

"Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("Threshold", p. 110), 1981.

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

Julia Brown, Helen Frankenthaler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1998). “After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.38, New World Library

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

Lawrence Weschler, David Hockney, Getty Foundation (2008). “True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney”, Univ of California Pr

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.80, Courier Corporation

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

William Ellery Channing (1863). “Lectures on the Elevation of the Laboring Portion of the Community”, p.15