Quotes About Essence

Painting was forced, as it turned out, to offer us illusion and this illusion was reckoned sufficient unto art. Photography and the cinema on the other hand are discoveries that satisfy, once and for all and in its very essence, our obsession with realism.

Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?

At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.

Hip hop is the strongest form of protest there is, and it doesn't always have to be a violent protest. It can be romantic, also. When you listen to Kanye West's 'Street Lights' for example, there's romance, there's pain - you feel the essence. I get the same thing from Drake and 2 Chainz.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

Premium content matters.

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

The soul preserves beauty.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

I do not want to sign projects in which the depth and essence of my character takes second place and the focus is instead on my looks.

1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.

I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

To get a sense of a person, to get their essence, it's not just about details. It is about something you can't really describe.

To me, the soul is a part of us that never dies. It's what we come in with.

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.

You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.