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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Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence
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You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.
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You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
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Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.
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I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.
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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
