Amedee Ozenfant Quotes

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

Amedee Ozenfant

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I would like to see America some day.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • America
  • Day
  • See

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • History
  • Tradition
  • Congress

• Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Sometimes
  • Movies
  • Superhero

• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Up
  • World
  • Creative

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I don't want to hear about my death.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Death
  • Hear

• I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Future
  • Young
  • Influence

• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Success

• I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Different
  • Paint

• Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Good
  • You
  • Single

• The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• 'They would say,' he answered, 'that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Lost

• We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.

  

  Jeff Bezos

• It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Done
  • Worry

• I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Reading
  • Sweet

• Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Try

• There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.

  

  Christopher Markus
  • World
  • Art

• Tu dolor es tan grande que no debiera dolerte.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Rest

• My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.

  

  John Allison
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Style

• Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

  

  Amedee Ozenfant
  • Art
  • Extraordinary
  • Demonstration