Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

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• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Painting

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Painting
  • Look
  • Craft

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Painting

• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Painting
  • Loved
  • Drawing

• As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Child
  • Architecture

• My painting does not come from the easel.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Come

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• 'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'

  

  Banksy
  • Pretty
  • Progress
  • Painting

• RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' now lost created such a sensation in Dresden

  

  Otto Dix
  • Lost
  • Painting

• Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Painting

• A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Single
  • Painting

• The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Culture
  • City
  • Christian

• I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Women
  • Painting
  • Inspiration

• Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Like the wide heaven, the all-sustaining air, It makes the reptile equal to the God; They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • God
  • Light
  • Heaven

• I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Philosophy
  • Poor

• I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Painting
  • Architecture
  • To Be