Yann Arthus-Bertrand Quotes

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Japanese
  • Companies
  • Lacking

• We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • You
  • Feminism

• I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Just

• I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Artist
  • Because
  • Making

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Way
  • End
  • Belt

• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Never

• My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Great
  • Way
  • Enjoy

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health care
  • Heroes
  • Veterans

• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • English
  • French

• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Magic

• I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • Good
  • Black

• Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • Help
  • Woman

• Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • World
  • You
  • Dirty

• Maps are living, breathing organisms that change on a daily basis: You see it in new roads, bridge closures, and demolitions.

  

  Noam Bardin
  • Change
  • Basis
  • Maps

• Did you know that when a baby poops its diaper, you're not supposed to hit him with a rolled up newspaper?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Baby

• Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

  

  Norman Lamm
  • Wanting
  • Tested
  • Dogmas

• I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Trying
  • Assuming
  • Disguise

• The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Beauty
  • Photography
  • Patience