#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

#artist #content #creates #distillation #experience

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

#appropriate #come #digest #distill #eight

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

— Nicholas Culpeper

#flowers #fruits #herbs #out #roots

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

— Edward Albee

#fact #fiction #into #play #truth

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

— Ralph Fiennes

#distillation #evil #meant #meant to be #playing

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#distilled #i #i wonder #like #poets

Poetry is life distilled. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#life #poetry

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ↗

— Ovid

#distilled #even #ever #more #nap

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ↗

— Robert Hall

#appropriate #ask #brandy #call #current

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#design #distilled #drawn #experiences #intellect