Eugene Delacroix Quotes
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
-
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
-
Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
-
I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
-
Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
-
I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
-
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
-
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
-
The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
-
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
-
As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.
-
Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
-
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
-
The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
-
Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.
-
Play it like something you hear down by the river.
-
Artists need to express.
-
Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.
-
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
-
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
-
As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.
-
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
