#exterior

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

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Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times. ↗

— Franz Marc

#conventional #created #everything #exterior #genuine

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#because #call #essence #exterior #idea

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#heart #i #inside #kind #like

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ↗

— William Cowper

#exterior #happiness #less #most #nature

Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#anthony hopkins #being #best #certain #exactly

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#enormous #exterior #face #flabby #grant

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#conqueror #ever #exterior #i #life

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#cannot #clearly #exterior #freedom #inner