Maurice Denis Quotes

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Maurice Denis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 25, 1870 - November 13, 1943

Topics

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I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

Solange Knowles

LoveBeautifulCreativePeopleJust

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

Tom Douglas

FoodSickGarbageGoingJust

You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.

Roger Ailes

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Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

Ronda Rousey

SurviveKnowEveryoneInstinctEven

An Oscar nomination? That would be a very satisfying thing, I'm sure. I would appreciate the thought. It would be like taking your hat off as an actor to all the people who walk through you.

Ruby Dee

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My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

Mary Badham

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If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

Michael Sandel

MoneyValueChildBookReadingYou

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

Diane Cilento

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An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

Christian Bale

ActorNeverFilmThanHeShould

I'm a man who doesn't even have a mobile!

Bradley Walsh

ManMobileWhoEven

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Willie Nelson

PurposeSufferingHelpCreateOwn

I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that's where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you're expected to do things, it's a sort of incremental heroism.

Peter Landesman

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