Paul Gauguin Quotes
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.Paul Gauguin
Quotes to Explore
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron d'Holbach -
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
Damien Hirst -
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt -
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
Imelda Marcos -
You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai -
A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
Patrick Troughton -
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri -
In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.
Federico Fellini
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
Ramana Maharshi -
Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance.
Gary Zukav -
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
E. L. Doctorow -
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman -
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall -
I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.
Alice Eve
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There was a time when one couldn't dream of being an actor if they weren't well-connected or they weren't a star kid.
Barun Sobti -
Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.
Jessica Simpson -
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
Sam Harris -
If you tried to make a 'Game of Thrones' movie, you'd have to eliminate two-thirds of the characters, and there'd have to be one storyline, but on TV, you can really get to know the characters in a way that there just isn't time to do in a movie.
Christopher Miller -
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
Paul Gauguin