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“I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.”

Trying Kind Dream Moving Memories Forget Secret Talking Essentials Models Remains Intimate Confession

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.”

Men Long Sleep Animal Principles Ready Return Essentials Remains Defense Awake Beast Realising Dominant Recognise Civilisation Savagery Sounder

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

“Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.”

May Use Action Law Courses Written Happened Essentials Tasks Remains Historical Various Narrative Sequence Written History

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.”

Children Stills Whole Facts Romance Religion Given Nations Business Family Morality Essentials Economics Remains Rounds Casts Glamour Begets Props Pluck True Or False Rearing A Child

Author:Eleanor Rathbone

“The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective…to increase our divine attributes to have moral life.”

Individual Goal Moral Divine Essentials Ultimate Bigger Increase Remains Objectives Attributes Ultimate Goal Moral Life

Author:Roberto Unger

“Jane Jacobs work wouldnt have been complete if it hadn't inspired others to carry it on, and evolve Jane's groundbreaking accomplishments so that the essential kernel of thought remains relevant for future generations. The essayists in What We See have built on those essential footholds that people who have never heard of Jane Jacobs will benefit from for decades.”

People Ifs Has Beens Generations Heard Essentials Benefits Built Remains Inspired Decades Evolve Accomplishment Relevant Jane Future Generation Jacob Essayists Kernel Groundbreaking

Author:Majora Carter

“We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.”

People Humans Spirituality Term Human Beings Becoming Essentials Aim Remains Adopting Optional

Book:The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet

Source: The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet

“Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.”

Mind Shows Eye Failing Missing Creation Essentials Appreciate Remains Senses Realms Tunes

Book:The Science of Being and Art of Living

Source: The Science of Being and Art of Living

“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.”

Guy Music Creation Drama Essentials Eating Destruction Remains Guitar Tension Cheese Composition Improvisation Good Guy Maintenance Cottages Consonants Creation And Destruction

Author:Frank Zappa

“In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.”

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925