Jules Breton famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.
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I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.
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The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.
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I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.
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There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.
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I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.
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Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums.
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I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
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I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
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As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Our future is our sense of common destiny.
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Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.
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With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
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