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  •    There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.You come to nature withyour theories, and nature knocksthemall flat.

    - Pierre Auguste Renoir
    c.1915  Quoted in AmbroiseVollard Renoir, an Intimate Record (1930).

  • Secrecy is the first essential in the affairs of State.

    -Cardinal Richelieu
      Testament Politique.

  • On ne voit bien qu'avec le c½ur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. Only with the heart can a person see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

    - Antoine de Saint-Exupe  ry
      Le Petit Prince.

  •    Photography was conceived as a mirror of the universal elements and emotions ofthe everydayness of lifeas a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world.

    - Edward Jean Steichen
    Quoted in Dialogue, May1989.

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