#surface

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#enjoy #going #heart #i #i think

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#get #good #i #interesting #mark

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#defining #estate #intellectual #intellectual property #kind

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#everybody #everyone #feelings #perfect #polite

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#criticism #oscar-wilde #peril #read #surface

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#change #electron #fundamental #ionization #layer

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#above #artist #dark #day #falls

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#arms #battle #blood #came #coming

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. ↗

— Laura Dern

#directors #enough #even #i #just

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#curtain #hard #iron #iron curtain #reminders