Maurice de Vlaminck Quotes

The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career. To be a painter is not a business, no more than to be an artist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter. It is a gift of Nature, a gift..

Maurice de Vlaminck

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• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Acting

• When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• 'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Career
  • Respect
  • Honor

• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• I have never broken a contract in my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Never
  • Broken

• Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Father
  • Wine
  • Very

• What other people think of me is none of my business.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Business
  • Think

• I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Internet

• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Career
  • Successful
  • Fame

• I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • See

• When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Business
  • Nice

• I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Love
  • History
  • Career

• Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Business
  • Small
  • Positive

• But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Think
  • Career
  • Difficult

• For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• By teaching others you will learn yourself.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Teaching
  • Teaching Others

• Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Everybody
  • Extent

• I love movies that are funny and scary and truly emotional all in one film, and I don't feel like I see movies like that a lot.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Funny
  • Emotional
  • Scary

• Who directed the video 'No More Drama' for Mary J. Blige. I was actually kickin' with J. Lo talking about some music that we're gonna put together, and we were talking about great directors. She said she really, really liked that video and was wondering who directed it, so yeah, I looked it up!

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career. To be a painter is not a business, no more than to be an artist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter. It is a gift of Nature, a gift..

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career