#surface

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

#anything #essence #essentially #express #exterior

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface. ↗

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#hidden #must #surface #where

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. ↗

— Michael Caine

#calm #dickens #duck #like #like a duck

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place. ↗

— Chuck Close

#controlled #disabilities #drove #faces #fact

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface. ↗

— Marcia Cross

#going #i #know #surface #under

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#aim #create #deepest #emanate #experience

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #communicating #digestive #entire #external

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#experimenting #remain #surface #things #while

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

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#camera #chemicals #each #face #fine