#surface

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#collection #everywhere #eye #generalizations #mobilize

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#enough #granted #large #large enough #manage

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#covers #cultural #each #ethnic #historical

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#american society #aristocratic #breaking #colours #covered

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

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept. ↗

— Pat Boone

#comedies #concept #dramatic #fact #humanistic

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#face value #follow #love #other #surface

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. ↗

— Chuck Close

#another #another way #colored #dirt #every

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#got #me #never #nice #nothing

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. ↗

— John Clayton

#only #paper #such #surface #thickness