During
an appearance at ESSENCE Festival this weekend, Oprah called DuVernay her «pride and joy» and that title is beyond fitting.
Not exact matches
The man who is wholly taken up with the demands of everyday living or whose sole interest is in the outward
appearances of things seldom gains more than a glimpse,
at best, of this second phase in our sense - perceptions, that in which the world, having entered into us, then withdraws from us and bears us away with it: he can have only a very dim awareness of that aureole, thrilling and inundating our being, through which is disclosed to us
at every point of contact the unique
essence of the universe.
There is a distinction made
at any moment between the content of
appearance and of
essence.
At each stage there is a clear difference between
essence and
appearance, but it is not permanent.
His paintings were mostly portraits, nudes, landscapes, still lifes and flower pieces, but given the early pre-Renaissance influence, they were
at the opposite pole from realism,
essences of the subject, not imitations of
appearances.