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Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. — Georges Braque · 1952Light is a delicate thing. — Georges BraqueHuman life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness. — Gustave Flaubert · 1864I have a very definite theory-let's call it theory, so that I can be wrong-that a work of art exists only when the spectator has looked at it. — Marcel DuchampThe only valid thing in art is that which cannot be explained. — Georges Braque · 1957America3 quotes
There is room for everybody in America; has he any particular talent or industry? He exerts it in order to procure a livelihood, and it succeeds. — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur · 1782Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur · 1782The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges. — Marcel Duchamp · 1917Death2 quotes
Anyone's death always releases something like an aura of stupefaction, so difficult is it to grasp this irruption of nothingness and to believe that it has actually taken place. — Gustave Flaubert · 1857Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things. — Marcel DuchampNature2 quotes
I have no other wish than a close fusion with nature. — Claude MonetAutumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things. — Marcel DuchampPurpose of art2 quotes
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. — Georges Braque · 1952Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness. — Gustave Flaubert · 1864Writing2 quotes
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in. — Gustave Flaubert · 1851It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts. — Gustave Flaubert · 185120th century1 quote
In a century which attempts to tear the heart out of every mystery, fashion guards its secret well, and is the best possible proof that there is still magic abroad. — Christian Dior · 1956America and Europe1 quote
What then is the American, this new man? He is either a European, or the descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur · 1782Americans1 quote
What then is the American, this new man? He is either a European, or the descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur · 1782Appetite for fame1 quote
The utmost renown never slakes a man's appetite and, unless he is a fool, he almost always dies uncertain of his own fame. — Gustave Flaubert · 1852Art and science1 quote
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. — Georges Braque · 1952Artist and audience1 quote
I have a very definite theory-let's call it theory, so that I can be wrong-that a work of art exists only when the spectator has looked at it. — Marcel DuchampArtists1 quote
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. — Gustave Flaubert · 1857Autumn1 quote
Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things. — Marcel DuchampBourgeoisie1 quote
Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. — Gustave Flaubert · 1867Broadening one's horizons1 quote
See many skies and seas. — Gustave Flaubert · 1857Cars1 quote
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. — Roland Barthes · 1957Challenges of writing1 quote
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in. — Gustave Flaubert · 1851Chastity1 quote
Of all sexual aberrations perhaps the most curious is chastity. — Remy de Gourmont · 1903Churches1 quote
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. — Roland Barthes · 1957Class warfare1 quote
Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. — Gustave Flaubert · 1867Confidence1 quote
Naturalness and ease of manner-a product of sophistication which the gullible interpret as a sign of instant affinity. — Gustave Flaubert · 1869Conversation1 quote
Conversation... Is the art of never appearing a bore, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, to entertain with no matter what, to be charming with nothing at all. — Guy de Maupassant · 1876Criticism of America1 quote
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges. — Marcel Duchamp · 1917Criticizing others1 quote
Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. — Gustave Flaubert · 1856Determinism1 quote
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes. — Pierre-Simon Laplace · 1812Doing one's job1 quote
Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods. — Pierre Corneille · 1640Duty1 quote
Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods. — Pierre Corneille · 1640Fading love1 quote
Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language. — Gustave Flaubert · 1856Fame1 quote
The utmost renown never slakes a man's appetite and, unless he is a fool, he almost always dies uncertain of his own fame. — Gustave Flaubert · 1852