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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• 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

• 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

• My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Work
  • Space
  • Practice

• No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• No company is hiring anyone to search for messages from aliens. Most people don't seem to think there's much benefit to it. The lack of interest is, I think, because most people don't realize what even a simple detection would really mean.

  

  Frank Drake
  • People
  • Simple
  • Search

• A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Live

• When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Heart
  • Experience

• By our everyday actions, by our unwillingness to admit our mistakes and sins, we Christians have declared God dead - perhaps without even realizing it. For is we no longer want to humble ourselves before God and man, acknowledging our sins, if we no longer want to repent, we do not need a living Savior.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • God
  • Mistakes
  • Christians

• I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our european values, our laws and our constitution are full members of our society.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Believe
  • Values
  • Constitution

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

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Painting
  • Architecture
  • To Be