Foreground Quotes

With the schoolhouse quilt, the quilter brings the bright colors of the background forward and the foreground backwards through the use of color. - Jean Tyson

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

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. - Constantin Stanislavski

They have a huge cash flow that finances a whole city of people, and yet where you can grow from there is actually fairly limited. Microsoft's stock price isn't going anywhere, and in that environment, politics that were background noise rise to the foreground. - Roger Kay

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

The foreground in a picture is always unattractive. . . Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love. - Louis Ferdinand Celine

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. - Raymond Chandler