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Beneath The Surface Quotes

This collection holds 20 beneath the surface quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Oscar Wilde, Stephen Sondheim and Mason Cooley.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Oscar Wilde / Writer

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Mason Cooley

Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

Stephen Sondheim / Composer

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Ashly Lorenzana

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

Blaise Pascal / Mathematician

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

John Singer Sargent / Artist

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

Christophe Agou / Photographer

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

Bryan Davis / Author

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

Delmore Schwartz / Poet

Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

Steven Pinker / Psychologist

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

Meredith Hall / Writer

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

Allan Moyle / Film Director

I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.

Nikki Sixx / Musician

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

William Gerhardie / Novelist

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

Debbie Ford / Author

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

Oscar Wilde / Writer

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Stephen Sondheim / Composer

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Oscar Wilde / Writer

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde / Writer

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

Oscar Wilde / Writer

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

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