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“It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.”

Easy Opinion Position Poet Speech Essence Chaos Advertising Capture Free Speech

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.”

Real Use Light Materials Keys Photography Essence Cameras Sensitive Capture Formation

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.”

People Firsts Ideas Helping Remember Creatures Essence Meetings Helping Others Visuals Capture

Author:Tom Wujec

“What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.”

Trying Art Would Be Poetry Artist Order Objects Essence Originals Capture Mechanism Activate Amplify

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.”

Spirit Impossible Essence South Tolerance Capture Louisiana Brass Bands

Book:1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

Source: 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

“I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.”

Thinking Looks Children Art Important Done Able Pieces Essence Capture Requirements

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human essence of the character.”

Trying Humans Important Character Might Behinds Essence Myth Capture

Author:Edgar Ramirez

“I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.”

Individual Realizing Impossible Essence Labels Capture Simplify Few Words

Author:Joanna Lohman

“I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title. And when you're reading it, and you're writing it, and you're ingesting it, sometimes a single word just comes up over and over and over again. And if you're trying to capture the essence of what it is you're trying to tell, you don't have a whole lot of space.”

Ifs Writing Trying Years Two Book Sometimes Whole Reading Space Essence Come Up Titles Two Years March Capture Publishers Single Word

Author:Andrew Aydin

“A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.”

Form Novel Essence Capture

Author:Paul Theroux

“Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?”

Spirit Essence Capture Formal Molding

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is. It is home.”

Trying Home Spirit Impossible Land Band Essence Lays South Tolerance Fallen Capture Rice Great Writers Lure Louisiana Brass Beads Brass Bands Beignets

Book:1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

Source: 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

“Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.”

Needs Humans Stories Lasts Form Spirit Mankind Draws Essence Mark Breaths Capture Human Spirit Good Story

Book:Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel

Source: Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel

“Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.”

“Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.”

Moments Food Summer Capacity Essence Cooking Capture Fleeting Immediacy Fleeting Moments

Author:Elizabeth David

“Perfume is magic. It's mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams.”

Dream Memories Magic Mystery Flower Essence Woods Smell Stores Grass Capture Perfume Essence Of Life

Author:M.J. Rose

“Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.”

Trying Humans Moments Stories Human Beings Situation Novel Eternal Essence Capture Short Story Pins

Author:Gina Berriault

“I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.”

Body Song Felt Journey Couple Needed Essence Albums Titles Working It Capture Catchy Fillers

Author:Vanessa Carlton

“David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.”

Humans Stories Spirit Novel Essence Capture Human Spirit Heartbreaking Debut Heartwarming

Author:Brad Listi