Essentials Quotes

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One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well… — Havelock Ellis
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it… — Frederick Douglass
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and… — Eric Hoffer
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not… — George Orwell
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the… — Aristotle
It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of… — Erich Fromm
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The… — Wallace Stevens
Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love. — Robert Pollok
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. — James Madison
It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such… — John Quincy Adams
But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and… — Jimmy Carter
All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in… — Henri Matisse
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything… — Henri Matisse
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. — Henri Matisse
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that… — Jim Rohn
Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be… — Vincent Van Gogh
There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable… — Tom Robbins
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately… — Paul Gauguin

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