All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.
I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.
This is my social face,” he said lightly. “Don’t confuse it with the animal beneath.
I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.
Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.
Beneath her cheek, his heart was thumping steadily. Definitely faster than his usual near-hibernation beat. Lifting her head, she flashed him a tight smile. “I get to you. ” “Are you kidding? You own me,” he said, his voice running over her like silk.
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision
I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.
. . . thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies
We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.