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Alchemy
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
Francis Ford Coppola,
American
Director
#People
#Sense
#Moments
#Cinema
#Alchemy
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Tragedy
#Poetry
#Pain
#Alchemy
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Henry A. Kissinger,
Statesman
#Vision
#Leaders
#Alchemy
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
Robert Morgan,
American
Soldier
#Art
#Poetry
#Alchemy
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Paracelsus,
Swiss
Scientist
#Now
#Past
#Contempt
#Alchemy
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus,
Swiss
Scientist
#May
#Power
#Virtue
#Lie
#Gold
#Alchemy
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
Paracelsus,
Swiss
Scientist
#Office
#Medicine
#Alchemy
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Paracelsus,
Swiss
Scientist
#Ethics
#Medicine
#Philosophy
#Astronomy
#Alchemy
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
William Temple,
#World
#Purpose
#Divinity
#Philosophy
#Enthusiasm
#Alchemy