17 Best Essence Quotes

A musician’s true mastery is measured by their ability to simplify, not complicate.

You think I'm a ghost, don't you? A ghost in a shell. – Major Motoko Kusanagi

To define is to limit.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs

How do you spell 'love'? You don't spell it...you feel it.

You never truly know someone until you fight them. – Seraph

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. – Abraham Maslow

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. – Vincent Van Gogh

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. – Aristotle

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. – Richard Dawkins

A film has to be a series of still photographs. That's film. – Stanley Kubrick

A film is a visual medium, and you must tell the story with pictures. – Stanley Kubrick

If you're going to be a good screenwriter, you need to be a good storyteller. – Quentin Tarantino

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out? – Alfred Hitchcock

I'm more interested in the truth than in the facts. – Francis Ford Coppola