The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. – Howard Hodgkin
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley
There’s another world out there just beyond the world we’re in. It’s just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface. – Bill Viola
If you actually dissect the lyrics in ‘Motley Crue’, you’ll notice that there’s a lot going on beneath the surface. – Nikki Sixx
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
As a general thing, I’ve always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath. – Michael Sheen
The subject matter of the stories on the surface… there seem to be a number of stories about travel. – Kenneth Koch
In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. – John Clayton
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
I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon. – Rick Reilly
I’ve played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface. – Zach Woods