#surface

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances. ↗

— Duane Michals

#photography #surfaces #nature

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

#entirely #execution #grain #handling #master

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#any #attempt #character #deny #french

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#beneath #fear #intense #intense love #kids

Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance. ↗

— Tom Allen

#beneath #confused #continues #governance #lies

Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things. ↗

— Jeremy Spencer

#cause #depth #good #good cause #i

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#contemplation #even #exhaust #few #few people

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#born #control #eliminate #felt #how

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#became #between #case #completely #difference

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#being #beyond #emerge #human #human being