Exterior Quotes

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.

Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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

I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.

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.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.

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.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

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.

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

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

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

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.

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

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.

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

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.