Maurice de Vlaminck Quotes

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Maurice de Vlaminck

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• Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Place

• I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Art

• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Believe
  • School
  • Kids

• When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Different
  • Success
  • Study

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Education
  • Materialism

• A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Done
  • Art

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Earth

• I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Happen
  • Afterlife

• I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • Why
  • She

• Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Believe
  • You
  • I Believe

• It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Stage
  • Comparison
  • Unfair

• The most profound reason... why the metropolis conduces to the urge for the most individual personal existence... appears to me to be the following: the development of modern culture is characterized by the preponderance of what one may call the 'objective spirit' over the 'subjective spirit.'

  

  Georg Simmel
  • Why
  • May
  • Culture

• I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Spirit
  • Teach
  • I Confess

• To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Why
  • Giving
  • Feels

• I bring the staple of my culture.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Culture
  • Staples

• In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Sick