Eugene Delacroix Quotes
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
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And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
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I have the whole costume from Playboy's sixtieth-anniversary cover shoot.
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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
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I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
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Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
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I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.
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Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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Love has no value in the absence of truth.
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People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted
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Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
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So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.
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Theology is a subject without an object
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Sometimes I’m misunderstood and it’s hard to come by that. My life has been full of excitement. I’ve done pretty much what I wanted to do. I came from the Midwest, from South Dakota, and I came up the hard way. We lived on a farm; we didn’t even have electricity or running water if you know what I mean. People don’t know what that life is like.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day.
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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
