Quotes About Essence

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

I think that all things are spirit and are derived from spirit. When you look at life from that perspective, it takes on a whole new meaning.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

Perfume is magic. It's mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

No more will, no more soul, no more life!

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

Life is essentially a question of values.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.