Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (Balthus) Quotes

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Balthasar Klossowski de Rola

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• Painting
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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
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• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
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• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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• I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
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• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Remember
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• I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
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• We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
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• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

  Sam Neill
  • World
  • Acting
  • Sea

• This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Easy

• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Real
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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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  • Problems
  • Darkness

• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Fear
  • Silence

• I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

  

  Fred Saberhagen
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• Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Money
  • Love
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• Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.

  

  J. Frank Dobie
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• When I first started 'Humans of New York,' I was writing short stories. There were about 50 of them. And, you know, they were a great part of the site, but the photography just started growing so fast that I didn't have time to make them anymore.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience