Top 24 Edouard Vuillard Quotes

#1. Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

Fulton J. Sheen

#2. The painter's instrument
is his armchair.

Edouard Vuillard

#3. To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Edouard Vuillard

#4. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.

Lesley Manville

#6. Until he turned twelve, Nimrod was a shitty person. The kind of whiner that, if he wasn't your best friend, you'd have kicked his ass a long time ago. And then one day, just before his bar mitzvah, they put insoles in his shoes, and suddenly the guy was a whole new human being.

Etgar Keret

#7. Be the author of your life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. You said that to get things right one of us would have to take a leap of faith. I think I've discovered the canyon that must be leaped, and I hope to find you waiting for me on the other side.

Kiera Cass

#9. Within 2 years Im predicting ... that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings ... in the next year or so.

Alex Jones

#10. We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

Edouard Vuillard

#11. Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting

Edouard Vuillard

#12. The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Christopher Hitchens

#13. I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

Edouard Vuillard

#14. I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

Summer Glau

#15. You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

Timothy Keller

#16. Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.

Edouard Vuillard

#17. I wear embarrassing like a velvet coat of awesomeness.

Lindy Zart

#18. I do believe that by virtue of having a volunteer army, you are going to have men and women who decide to serve and others who decide to pursue different careers.

Mitt Romney

#19. Sometimes, the best endings are the ones that surprise you. Sometimes, the best are the ones that have everything happening exactly how you want it to happen. But the absolute perfect endings are when you get a little of both.

Sarah Addison Allen

#20. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Dag Hammarskjold

#21. The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

Edouard Vuillard

#22. Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

Edouard Vuillard

#23. Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego.

Jim Trelease

#24. There is no art without a poetic aim.

Edouard Vuillard

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