Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (Balthus) Quotes
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
Xavier Dolan
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
Fab Five Freddy
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West
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I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
Adam Hughes
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Carl Andre
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Daniel Bell
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
Adam Jones
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
Yoko Ono
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
Pamela Meyer
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes
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Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.
Jim Lee
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Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Philip Guston
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You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because they can pay them twice as much, and do it for the belief and the love of art.
M.I.A.
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I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
Nelson Mandela
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Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola