Brassaï Quotes
Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
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I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
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If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.
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In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.
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Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?
