William-Adolphe Bouguereau Quotes

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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• The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Works
  • Known
  • Locks

• 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.

  

  Halsey
  • Sound
  • Rocks
  • Landscape

• We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Commitment

• I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Works
  • Ridiculous
  • Edge

• When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Human
  • Audience
  • Landscape

• I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Time
  • Travel

• I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Ideas
  • Spirit
  • Landscape

• On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Learned
  • Landscape
  • Workers

• I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Know
  • Hard

• Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Respect
  • Opinion
  • Person

• Don't get me wrong: I love a massive show with dancers and the works, and I love Zumba! But I just want there to be more people who just sing.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Want
  • Wrong

• The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Image
  • Poetic
  • Psyche

• There's various scenarios and interpretations about that urgency. I think first we have to get the facts. There are too many interpretations of the facts, and those scenarios could change based on the variables incorporated in those projections.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Interpretation
  • Urgency
  • Scenario

• We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Works

• Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Ideals

• I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Create
  • Works
  • Limitations

• I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Time
  • Way
  • Space

• The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Support
  • Purpose
  • Whole

• The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Way
  • Attention

• Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

  

  William-Adolphe Bouguereau
  • Works
  • Landscape
  • Ideals