Quotes About Essence

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

You don't have to speak monosyllables to be simple. What we mean by simple is finding the core of the idea.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

If there is one thing his story has taught me, it is that when all the dross is melted away from the human heart, only gold remains.

Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life. Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death. Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.

Naturalism was never the point.

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. — PICASSO

You did not become born again or receive the Holy Spirit through a bottle of oil or a mantle. So you don't need them to live your life!

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

A child, indeed, but the heart of the concentrated faith of thousands, the essence of their prayers, longings, hopes. Whether it is Lhasa or Rome—all are united by one wish: to find God and to serve Him.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

I live, which is the main point.

I did not know what breath meant until she died. It was everything that gave me quickness and life: it was thought, feeling, animation. Without it there was nothing.

The truth is that you do forget people. When you conjure them up, long after they have gone, you can't recall the essence of them, just the outline.

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.

I have learned, too, the danger that comes in mistaking the wildness we give a thing for the wildness that animates

Lily was a bunch of crumpled pockets and Sylvie is a black dress, perfumed scarves, iron posture and whatever else turns a person into an atmosphere.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

The living being is above all a thoroughfare, and ... the essence of life is in the movement by which life is transmitted.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­

It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.