Essential Character Quotes

7 quotes by 6 authors

• A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. — Richard Hofstadter
• Paint the essential character of things. — Camille Pissarro
• The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children. — Bertrand Russell
• A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm… — Henri Matisse
• On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character… — Thornton Wilder
• It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business… — Vance Palmer

Who Wrote These Essential Character Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 7 Essential Character Quotes as follows:

• 1 Essential Character Quote by Richard Hofstadter
• 1 Essential Character Quote by Camille Pissarro
• 1 Essential Character Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Essential Character Quote by Henri Matisse
• 1 Essential Character Quote by Thornton Wilder
• 1 Essential Character Quote by Vance Palmer