Essence Quotes - Page 14

Melody is the essence of music.

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

Love is the essence of God.

Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it).

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Magick, in essence, is the ability to communicate to the universe what you want in an effective way, so that the universe can then respond and create what you desire.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

My definition of God is the ever-present essence of love.

It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.

I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.