Maurice de Vlaminck Quotes
I wanted to burn down the 'École de Beaux Arts' with my cobalts and vermilions and I wanted to express my feelings with my brushes without troubling what painting was like before me.. .Life and me, me and life.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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I'm particularly weird because I don't even like being looked at.
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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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I'm not ashamed to look like a total idiot.
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I wanted to burn down the 'École de Beaux Arts' with my cobalts and vermilions and I wanted to express my feelings with my brushes without troubling what painting was like before me.. .Life and me, me and life.
