Foreground Quotes

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. - Edith Wharton

One of the things you'll notice about the sky is that he's taken a horizontal format: Holland is flat. The sky is rarely depicted other than as a foil to all of the detail in the foreground and his horizon line is often very low. - Kristin Spangenberg

It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground. - Geoffrey Rush

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

If you told it the other way round in a film, it would seem like a tract... The message would be too much in the foreground. It's human stories, those are the ones you're interested in. So the argument, as it were, is submerged and that's the way it should be, really. You've got to get the audience interested in the lives of the boys. - Alan Bennett

If I stayed underground, the music stays underground. There's no other way of being successful, or bringing a certain type of music into the foreground, without being in the charts. - La Roux

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. - Wislawa Szymborska