Maurice Denis Quotes
Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity'
Maurice Denis
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
Rachael Ray
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
Taylor Negron
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
Barry Eisler
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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.
Rachel Kushner
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
Barry McGee
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
Rachel Kushner
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"The further art advances the closer it approaches science," said Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and inventor of the wheelbarrow, and other useful instruments from the speaking tube to a mechanically gyp-proof whore-house, "the further science advances the closer it approaches art."
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.
Zooey Deschanel
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At some point, Dekteon saw, his own world had come close to such a religion, where women ruled and men died-but the road had taken a different turning. Now the hints of the ancient mystery remained only in songs. It was the men who were the masters. Maybe not for the better, and not for the worse, either. But all this was unimportant.
Tanith Lee
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I'm not usually the guy who believes in aliens, UFOs or superstitions.
Alistair Overeem
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Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
DMX
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Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity'
Maurice Denis
