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

• When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Talking
  • Intelligence
  • Someone

• All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

  

  Sue Monk Kidd
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Belong

• Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

  

  Jay Mohr
  • Success

• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Action
  • Confidence
  • Builder

• Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Shadow
  • Shine
  • Divine

• 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