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Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

Austin Osman Spare
Art, Subconscious, Latent

Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those that become latent in the association, recessive.

Gregor Mendel
Association, Latent, Hybrid
"Experiments on Plant Hybrids" (1865)

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

Ansel Adams
Photographer, Surface, Latent
Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

Alain de Botton
Layers, Interest, Latent
Alain De Botton (2008). “The Art of Travel”, p.225, Vintage

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.

Norman Vincent Peale
Self, Plus, Latent
"Power of the Plus Factor: The Little Extra That Makes You a Winner". Book by Norman Vincent Peale, 1987.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Italo Svevo
Greatness, Belief, Latent
Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.12, Vintage

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

Norman Mailer
Alive, Homosexuality, Latent
1959 Advertisements for Myself,'The Homosexual Villain'.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Genius, Latent, Presumption

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

Max Lucado
People, Stories, Latent
Source: www.preaching.com

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

Mahatma Gandhi
Beast, Poet, Latent

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