Quotes About Layers

The whole point of Art Must Be Beautiful, Art Must Be Beautiful was to destroy that image of beauty. Because I had come to believe that art must be disturbing, art must ask questions, art must predict the future. If art is just political, it becomes like newspapers. It can be used once, and the next day it's yesterday's news. Only layers of meaning can give long life to art - that way, society takes what it needs from the work over time.

I had come to believe that art must be disturbing, art must ask questions, art must predict the future. If art is just political, it becomes like newspaper. It can be used once, and the next day it's yesterday's news. Only layers of meaning can give long life to art - that way, society takes what it needs from the work over time.

She can feel it all, centuries of habitation, paint over paint over plaster over stone.

Your aura is the energy field surrounding your physical body, and it's usually up to 12 layers in thickness.

I regret a lot of things, like believing that Joe and I would have grandchildren together one day. But here's the truth: I don't want to feel it. I'm tired of feeling it. I need my outer protective layers to click shut, quickly.

People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realise.

Grace had so many complexities, so many layers and feelings, and thoughts ... he would happily spend his life trying to unwrap her. Thinking about it, he tore a strip off the hem of her gown. 'What on earth are you going to do with that?' Without answering, he put a knee forward onto the bed, making certain he knew precisely where she was. The last thing he wanted was to land on her like a felled tree.

No wonder women wore layers of clothing. They had so much beauty to hide.

I am really here. Yet I know I am not. I am inside something that must be buried in my head. I am layers deep in my own brain.

Her life was like a pale shadow of life, given form by innumerable layers of anguish.

It was a cold November day and she had dressed herself up in layers of cardigans and covered the whole lot with her old tweed coat, the one she might have used for feeding the chickens in.

But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

Heartbreak has so many layers. So many layers that often feel like a rollercoaster ride.

Enya is a very matriarchal musical force. Her music is very feminine and she layers her voice a lot. It leaks into my music secretly on the side. There's a lot of lush layers of my voice hiding in the cracks.

All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

La historia era un palimpsesto, borrado y reescrito tantas veces como fuese necesario.

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.