Andre Derain Quotes
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.Andre Derain
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
Rachel Ward -
I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
Gabrielle Aplin -
If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
Gaby Hoffmann -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban -
I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
Nas -
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
Walter Gropius -
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
Gary Shteyngart -
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
Origen -
We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
Indra Devi -
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Jackson Pollock -
My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
Calvin Johnson -
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Hans Selye -
I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'
Charlotte McKinney -
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler -
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
Alice Morse Earle -
It's really funny to me that I get called a workhorse or somebody who's really good at making other people better in the ring. I feel like I'm good at every aspect of this. I feel like I'm a great talker; I feel like I'm a great representative of the company. I broke records in college. I have an amateur background with fighting skills.
Dolph Ziggler -
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field -
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.
Andre Derain