Quotes of: Surface Keyword

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Blankets

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

A Cup of Tea: A Novel of 1917

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.

John Banville

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.

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.

Jerry Saltz

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Mel Gibson

Question for your life: If love covered as much of the earth’s surface as the oceans, would you still urinate in your wetsuit?

$3.33

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

All for Love

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

The Human Script

We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence.

Joys of Beekeeping

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

Killosophy

I turned and bumped my head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface.

Magic Slays

Like a drop of ink in water, the urge rushed to the surface and then slowly spread out and thinned until I was made slightly darker by it.

THE LAST EVE

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

Laughable Loves

Unless you find the fundamental cause and treat that, the same problem will surface later on in a different form.

Sputnik Sweetheart

She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.

Unrequited

Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance?

Undone

Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination.

Upon Destiny's Song

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

What Is Life?

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

Without a Map

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.

Maurice Sendak