536 Quotes About Essence

  • Author Robert Henri
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    Water runs down hill concisely. There is no quibbling about it. It does not have to run up hill in order to be entertaining. Man has always followed its course with fascination. The soul of man may reveal its mysteries through direct expression, simple speech, simple gesture, simple painting, just as the soul of the brook is expressed in full simplicity and economy.

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  • Author Thomas Merton
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    There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious Unity and Integrity is Wisdom, the Mother of all, Natura Naturans. There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and of joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being...

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  • Author Joy Harjo
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    Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their desires [...] My father-to-be was of the water and could not find a hold in the banks of earthiness. Water people can easily get lost.

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  • Author Alvar Aalto
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    The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture

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  • Author Alvin Ailey
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    Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

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  • Author Ansel Adams
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    In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things...It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to spectators...

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