Foreground And Background Quotes

#1. Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine harmoniously they give rise to perspective, foreground and background, and ultimately to emotion and other aesthetic attributes.

Daniel Levitin

#2. There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

Chaim Potok

#3. If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

Janet Burroway

#4. February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

Shirley Jackson

#5. I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?

Jake Gyllenhaal

#6. If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

Donella Meadows

#8. The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

Anna Nicole Smith

#10. A castle sat in the background, turrets flying a minuscule emblem in the foreground sat a lady, her skirts adorned with picked blossoms "A castle," Helena murmured, "fit for a princess, except that the prince has escaped.

Karen Ranney

#11. I plan to march to the ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea," the young King said, his mismatched eyes shining with certainty. "And it's Al-ex-an-der." He smiled. "You Persians always butcher my name.

Kat Ross

#12. The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

Edith Wharton

#13. Contextualization lies in bringing out the right messages from the abundant content; in sandwiching the subject between the background of information and the foreground of its utility.

Suyog Ketkar

#14. But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.

David Mitchell

#15. I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

Marvin L. Cohen

#16. I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

Charles Stross

#18. We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.

Martin O'Malley

#19. Otherwise he stayed in the background, a small figure in a painting, while life was played out in the foreground. However,

Nina George

#20. He's jealous of you."
"Is that right?"
"Of course! Because no matter what he does, when he puts on your shorts and one of your bras, he never looks as cute in them as you do.

Shelly Laurenston

#21. There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Lyonel Feininger

#22. Our Heavenly Father longs to bless his children in ways we can't comprehend. Even when we can't see through our circumstances, we can trust the Lord to meet our needs.

Shelley Hitz

#23. Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

Wayne Dyer

#24. I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

Keanu Reeves

#25. Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground ... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

Mu Xin

#26. No," I say. "Actually, the first time I saw one in real life, I thought of the Great Pit of Carkoon in Return of the Jedi." "OK, well, I officially take back my previous comment about you knowing a thing or two about vaginas." "Understandable." "What

Matthew Norman

#27. A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow plane, paint the lights cool and the shadows warm, and in the sunlight plane, paint the lights warm and shadows cool.

Harvey Dunn

#28. What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.

Gavin Hood

#29. As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

Anthony Browne

#30. I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

David Hockney

#31. When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

Brian Eno

#32. The author stipulates that while television lately background noise for a child, it tends to shift to the foreground for the adult. The adult pays enough attention to the media attention is paid to the child.

Gary Chapman

#33. I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.

Douglas Adams

#34. Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

Arianna Huffington