Azzedine Alaia Quotes
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.
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Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
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Painting is so much more than the materials.
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war.
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I love film - it's like painting.
