Jean Dubuffet Quotes

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts tot the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

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• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Kindness

• I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Done
  • High

• When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Good
  • She
  • Goal

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Nowadays

• A large group of Iranians have doubts about last month's (June) disputed presidential election … something should be done about the situation., on the 2009 presidential election.

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  • Done
  • Presidential
  • June

• One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Words
  • Perfect

• I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Life

• Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Culture

• There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.

  

  Elsa Lanchester
  • Different

• I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • School
  • City
  • Rock

• I would love to do a podcast because I've done so many of them, guesting on them. Plus, anything goes, which I love.

  

  Jim O'Heir
  • Done

• I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Mad

• I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.

  

  Paul Theroux

• All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.

  

  David Morrissey
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Time
  • Children
  • Sunday

• King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

  

  Joan of Arc
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • King

• People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • People

• Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

  

  Bruce Catton
  • Up
  • American
  • Eyes

• The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Understanding
  • Suffering
  • Child

• There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts tot the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

  

  Jean Dubuffet