Daumier Quotes

#1. Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.

David Sylvester

#2. To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

W. H. Auden

#3. If you weren't scared,
you wouldn't be human,
you wouldn't be brave."
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"If you were fearless,
you wouldn't
need to overcome it.
Bravery means being scared
and going forward
anyway," Fia says.
"That's courage.

Leza Lowitz

#4. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

Trip Hawkins

#5. The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.

Honore Daumier

#6. Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.

Honore Daumier

#7. I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.

Michael Gira

#8. Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

Alice Fulton

#9. I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone - a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

J.D. Salinger

#10. Sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.

Scott Adams

#11. The northeast trade winds that blow at a steady fifteen knots onto the cliffs and reefs of the islands' lee shores produce endless trains of eminently glidable waves.

Simon Winchester

#12. Whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

Lionel Shriver

#13. In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

Lukas Haas

#14. Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women.

Honore Daumier

#15. When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

Bill Shorten

#16. Man, I'm messed up right now. My best friend is my father? The man I idolized as a kid ... whose tattoo is on my arm ... And he's younger than me. Yeah, I don't think I can handle this. Mindwipe me, somebody ... please! Where's that dragon from Sanctuary? Simi, go get Max. I need him.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. Write the kind of story you like best - write the story you want to read.

Austin Kleon

#18. L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

Geoff Mulgan

#19. The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

J.D. Salinger

#20. Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast.

Honore Daumier