Jean Dubuffet Quotes

The eye perceives what is hard and what is soft, what is porous and what is impervious, what is warm to the touch and what is cold.

Jean Dubuffet

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• To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Character
  • Cold
  • Late

• I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Want
  • Theatre
  • Cold

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • God
  • Why
  • Kids

• I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Me
  • Cold

• I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Cold
  • Mood
  • Comfortable

• World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • War
  • Cold

• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Problem
  • Cold
  • Sound

• My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Fear
  • Know
  • Cold

• Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Cold
  • Reputation
  • Room

• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Death
  • Cold
  • Whiskey

• Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Night
  • Woman
  • Cold

• I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Why
  • Like
  • Dark

• I see people having fits because their coffee is too hot or their baked potato is too cold, or some random something is imperfect and somebody can be blamed for it. These people can fly off the handle and nobody says, 'Too much beef will do that to a person.' If it's a vegan: a clear case of alfalfa sprout poisoning.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Cold
  • Fly

• I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

  

  Vash Young
  • Long
  • Real
  • Together

• My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Long
  • School
  • Home

• Maybe just an ice cold brew what's a beer, that's the devil in my ear, I've been sober a fucking year and that fucker still talks to me, he’s all I can fuckin' hear 'Marshall, come on, we'll watch the game, it's the Cowboys and Buccaneers!'

  

  Eminem
  • Game
  • Cold
  • Devil

• A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Action
  • Moral
  • Cold

• Being a mother is magical.

  

  Ellen Pompeo
  • Mother

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.

  

  T. Davis Bunn
  • Life
  • God
  • Hope

• The eye perceives what is hard and what is soft, what is porous and what is impervious, what is warm to the touch and what is cold.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Cold