Beyond the Surface Quotes

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.

Beauty is only skin deep.

When we are younger, we say a lot of things without often believing in them. The thoughts within you are much more important, and so often, one can't completely describe what one feels. As we grow older, we realize that there is more to love than what is expressed in the conventional sense of the terms.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

People are more than their first impressions. And even if someone seems like a lot, or seems this way or that way, it doesn't mean they're not a three-dimensional person, with a real life.

Good looks only take you so far.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Just because someone raps, doesn't mean that's all they can do. A lot of people are multi-talented.

No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

When people meet me or hear me in person, they quickly learn that I am much more than a tweet and a profile picture.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.