#exterior

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#because #call #essence #exterior #idea

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#artists #big #big heart #comic #dwells

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#heart #i #inside #kind #like

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#enormous #exterior #face #flabby #grant

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#art #considered #crystal #deepest #devoid

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept. ↗

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#exterior #haven #little #nights #raining

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#cannot #clearly #exterior #freedom #inner

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#career #exterior #i #like #much

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#characters #exterior #films #i #interior

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#fatter #focusing #getting #happy #i