Jean Dubuffet Quotes

I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the physical person of a man, is a little world, like any other a country, with its towns, and suburbs.. .As a rule what is needed in a portrait is a great deal of the general, and very little of the particular.

Jean Dubuffet

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• The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

  

  Zack Snyder
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  • Today
  • Fighting

• It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • Strong
  • Peace

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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  • Good
  • Past

• Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

  

  Beck
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  • Find

• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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  • Real
  • House

• When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

  

  Ice Cube
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• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

  

  Lars von Trier
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  • Worry

• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
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  • Giving
  • Education

• There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • Rest

• A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

  

  Tamara Mellon
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  • Man
  • Too Much

• In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• 'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • World
  • Lord

• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
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  • Career

• There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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  • You
  • Challenge

• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
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  • God
  • Heart

• I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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  • World
  • School

• If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • World
  • Fall
  • Apart

• Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
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• A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It's like a little sign that says 'Hey, let's never hang out.'

  

  Demetri Martin
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  • Mind

• When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

  

  Bobby Knight
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  • Earth
  • Kiss

• Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

  

  Segolene Royal
  • Violence
  • Development
  • Disparity

• The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Play
  • Hours
  • Events

• I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the physical person of a man, is a little world, like any other a country, with its towns, and suburbs.. .As a rule what is needed in a portrait is a great deal of the general, and very little of the particular.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
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