Maurice Denis Quotes
Don't lose sight of the essential objectives of painting, which are expression, emotion, delectation; to understand the means, to paint decoratively, to exalt form and color.
Quotes to Explore
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
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I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
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My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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Don't lose sight of the essential objectives of painting, which are expression, emotion, delectation; to understand the means, to paint decoratively, to exalt form and color.
