Outline of Painting - Essence of Painting

Famous quotes containing the words essence of, essence and/or painting:

“It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“No painting is more replete than Mondrian’s.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)