A Quote by Frederick Lenz

The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
American - Author
February 9, 1950 - April 12, 1998

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.

Richard Avedon

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

Beah Richards

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David Grinspoon

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E. M. Forster

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Usain Bolt

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Haruki Murakami

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Bernadette Roberts

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

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Alexander Ahndoril

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

Andy Goldsworthy

Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

Charlie Jane Anders

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

Vernon Howard

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.

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