A Quote by John Paul Caponigro
Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.
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Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.
Reveal art; conceal the artist.
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal
Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling."
In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal.
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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