Quotes About Essence

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

It's the story that counts.

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

He wanted to restore a 'democratic social polity, with the exaltation of the things of the mind and character... the essence of ancient Irish civilisation... must provide the keynote of the new.

In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was. Like a perfect state of balance.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. —BRUCE LEE

Simple works, complex fails.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." —Lin Yutang

What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.

Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away." –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French writer, author of The Little Prince

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A. H. Almaas: "Ultimately, your gift to the world is being who you are. It is both your gift and your fulfillment.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

La perfección no se alcanza cuando no hay nada más que añadir, sino cuando ya no queda nada que quitar. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." –Joseph Campbell American mythologist and writer, known for The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. —ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, pioneer

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exup