#distill

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way. ↗

— Beck

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Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

#flowers #fruits #herbs #out #roots

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes. ↗

— Anne Edwards

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I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#distilled #i #interested #making #never

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ↗

— Edward Albee

#fact #fiction #into #play #truth

History, a distillation of rumour. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#history #rumour

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

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