Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it… — Georges Braque
One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The… — Georges Clemenceau
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And… — George Crabbe
There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit… — Mary Baker Eddy
Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those… — Dallas Willard
Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through nourishing… — Antoine Lavoisier
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable,… — Agnes Martin
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. — Asger Jorn
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge… — Paula Rego
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances. — Wayne Thiebaud
When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by… — Saint Basil
I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I think we owe… — Gerald R. Ford
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance… — Erasmus Darwin
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to… — Baldassare Castiglione
The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly… — John Muir
If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves… — Brigham Young
Number was the substance of all things. — Pythagoras
The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale… — Ann Landers
No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated… — Saint Basil
God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man. — Frederick Lenz
Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or… — Nhat Hanh
Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star. — Frederick Lenz
Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some… — George Washington Carver
Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light… — Frederick Lenz
Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do. — Dolph Lundgren

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