Surface Quotes - Page 3

All art is at once surface and symbol.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

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

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.

The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface.

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

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.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.