Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (Balthus) Quotes
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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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 -
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 -
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali -
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
Fab Five Freddy -
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 -
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Carl Andre -
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Daniel Bell -
All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
Adam Jones -
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 -
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 -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
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 -
Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
J. August Richards -
Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
Walt Whitman
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It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.
Douglas Coupland -
The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.
Amy Heckerling -
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
Neil Gaiman -
On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air
William Shakespeare -
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola