Quotes About Distillation

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.

There is but one art, to omit.

Condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

History a distillation of rumor.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Istoria este distilarea zvonurilor.

One must strain off what was personal and accidental in all these impressions and so reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth.

abstract' comes from a Latin verb which simply meant 'draw away' (abstrahere).

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

We buy the most expensive grain available growing on the best part of Russian land called black soil. We also play close attention to the purity of the water - we get it from Lake Ladoga. We store it ourselves to specific conditions. We carefully manage distillation at my distillery in Moscow.

all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.

all the boring rehash of what happened up to this point. That saves me a lot of time and effort.

finding the core," and expressing it in the form of a compact idea

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.

It was strange how these poems came to him nowadays, the distillation of his private emotions, of his disillusionment, of his solitude, of his yearning for a future in which, nevertheless, he could not believe.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

Then, were not summer's distillation left A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor no remembrance what it was. But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it's you as you always were, deep down inside.