“A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.” ArtCertainElementsSurpriseWorks Of ArtOriginalityIndispensableStrangenessBlossoming Book:The Renaissance Source: The Renaissance
“Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.” ObjectsPaintingElementsIndispensableFabulousSplendorImpressionism Author:Wassily Kandinsky
“Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.” HeartEducationTeachFireYouthCollegeGeniusOfficeElementsAimVariousFlamesHallsRaysIndispensableDrills Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.” SpiritualReligiousGreatnessElementsEternalRegardIndispensableSolemnTrue Greatness Author:Daniel Webster
“Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.” IfsHas BeensCountryWould BeAmericaLosesJusticePayCrimeGreatnessElementsPagesDeterminationForgottenUglyDebtRecallsAmerican HistoryIndispensableMisdeeds Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.” YearsUniverseStarsGenerationsEvolutionTenElementsNuclearBillionsEvolveChemicalsIndispensablePrerequisitesFurnaces Author:John Polkinghorne