Top 1200 Surface Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A painted surface is a real, living form.

The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

I haven't scratched the surface of what I can become offensively.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

Clay... is my favorite surface.

Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

Many fires burn below the surface.

I usually surface on social media only when there's a film.

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

All art is at once surface and symbol.

I feel like modeling can be a little surface.

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

A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does not recede, a color band which does not obtrude, a white square or rectangle which does not move back or forth, to or fro, or up or down; there is also a painted white exterior frame band which is edged round the edge to the black. Every part is painted and contiguous to its neighbor; no part is above or below any other part. There is no hierarchy. There is no ambiguity. There is no illusion. There is no space or interval (time).

Golden is a surface colour.

The surface is all you get of me.

Vanity is but the surface.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Clay is not my surface; everyone knows that.

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

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

As I get older, my emotions are closer to the surface.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

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

Clay is my favourite surface.

You can't be deep without a surface

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

Most art is just surface noise.

If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

There was so much about my dad that wasn't on the surface.

Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.

The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that it is quiet. Its quietness makes it seem perfect. The ripples are like the slates of a blind of a shutter through which we see imperfectly what is perfect. Though that other world can be seen only momentarily, it looks everlasting. As the ripples become more agitated, the window darkens and the other world is hidden.the surface of the river is like a living soul, which is easy to disturb, is often disturbed, but, growing calm, shows what it was, is, and will be.

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made truth of what appeared to be. The days that passed, in becoming weeks, still did not disturb the surface an assumption had created. The weather of a beautiful summer continued with neither sign nor hint that credence had been misplaced. The single sandal found among the rocks became a sodden image of death; and as the keening on the pier at Kilauran traditionally marked distres brought by the sea, so did silence at Lahardane.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.