Quotes About Conceal

Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

I try to conceal art with art.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

Reveal art; conceal the artist.

I believe in art that conceals art.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Art is most effective when concealed.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

Art lies in concealing art.

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

I am settled, and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Away and mark the time with fairest show, False face must hide what false heart doth know.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

Sometimes,the word FINE could simply mean FORGET IT..NOT EXPOSING .

Some people, under certain circumstances, hide their true emotions under exaggeration and hyperbole, not realizing their amplified caricature reveals the exact measure of the feelings it was meant to conceal.

If you marvel at your good fortune, you should marvel in secret; never let people see you.

She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.

She reminds herself that everyone has thoughts they wouldn't care to share with the world. Many people have quite perverse thoughts about doing things with animals or fruit, or being spanked by nurses. The difference, of course, is that their thoughts are securely locked away behind bland faces, whereas Sophie's are always in danger of being revealed to all in a sudden flood of colour.

She'd always made a point of pretending not to be interested in money, because she was, in fact, very interested in it.