Quotes About Essence

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

Surprise is important. I think that's the essence of entertainment, really.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

A occasional whiff of his personality drifted back to me.

Greška je u ?oveku ili ženi, a ne u biti vaseljene.

Or maybe there's one thing to say, about the capitalism of the heart, the belief that the essence of life too can be seized and hoarded, that you can corner the market on confidence, stage a hostile takeover of happiness.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted. If one's own existence has no form, if its events do not come handily to mind and disclose their significance, we feel about ourselves as if we were reading a bad book.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

In one of the chapters of her book my mother characterizes the relationship of sisters as one that can illustrate the essence of relationships, an understanding companionship of two complete and independent individuals who choose to be together.

It could be known only through six divine "evocations" that it brought forth into the world from its own being: wisdom, truth, power, love, unity, and immortality. These are not so much Ahura Mazda's attributes as they are the six substances that make up its essence.

But tawhid, which literally means "making one," implies more than just monotheism. True, there is only one God, but that is just the beginning. Tawhid means that God is Oneness. God is Unity: wholly indivisible, entirely unique, and utterly indefinable. God resembles nothing in either essence or attributes.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Her olay nesneldir: Önemli olan ne anlama geldiÄŸi dÄŸeil, sizin için ne anlama geldiÄŸidir.

In the beginning was simplicity.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

The world is, she would say. It just is, boy.

Without love, what was the world?

Love, Henry remembered thinking then, was a lengthy series of insignificant questions whose answers you couldn't live without.

So don't confuse repacking with merely simplifying.

There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.