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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

  

  James Polshek
  • Art
  • Architecture
  • Healing

• I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

  

  Donna Karan
  • People
  • Space
  • Fashion

• The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • Time
  • Effort
  • Architecture

• We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Why
  • Architecture

• Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow
  • People
  • Art
  • Painting

• Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Want
  • To Be

• India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Religion
  • Countries
  • Millionaire

• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Leader
  • Stage
  • Orchestra

• We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Society

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

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Painting
  • Architecture
  • To Be