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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It's important to let your subjects be themselves.
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We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!
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Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.
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Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
