#surface

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene. ↗

— Jay Roach

#after #because #becomes #bit #composure

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#civilised #class #education #free #great

I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#another #everybody #exploring #feel #give

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#cleaner #extent #great #great extent #had

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#angles #apparently #attention #bird #course

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#ago #earth #glacier #god #great

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface. ↗

— James Bryant Conant

#appears #behavior #below #correct #corrupt

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

#imagined #magic #mind #moves #painting

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing. ↗

— Duane Michals

#art #invention #nothing #photography #surfaces

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#brave men #men #middle #softness #surface