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By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning. -- Scott McCloud
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. -- Brian Swimme
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. -- Leonard Bernstein
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad. -- Stephen Cohen
Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law? -- Edward Kennedy
All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back. -- John Ruskin
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. -- Josiah Royce
It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else. -- Noah Taylor
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone. -- Octavio Paz
Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning. -- Juanes
Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art. -- Alfred Stieglitz
Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning -- Dick Van Dyke
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being -- Igor Stravinsky
A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life. -- Pope Francis
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. -- Josiah Royce

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