Francis Alys Quotes

#1. I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!

Bobbi Brown

#2. I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#3. I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

Francis Alys

#4. If you are lost inside the beauties of nature, do not try to be found!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets.

Domhnall Gleeson

#6. The crescent sun is high, the moon low;
life is not for the faint-hearted;
so why the fuck should art be?

Hal Duncan

#7. I think we've all lost some kind of feeling.

Bret Easton Ellis

#8. We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena.

Francis Alys

#9. That kind of natural understanding doesn't develop naturally

Kenny Cunningham

#10. In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky.

Francis Alys

#11. Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

Francis Alys

#12. He was the man I mentioned who was obsessed by the idea that he had cancer, although X-rays had proved to him that it was all imaginary. Who or what caused this idea? It obviously derived from a fear that was not caused by observation of the facts. It suddenly overcame him and then remained.

C. G. Jung

#13. What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

Francis Alys

#14. I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment.

Francis Alys

#15. The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

Charles Dickens

#16. Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

Cynthia Lewis

#17. Christianity is Christ because there isn't anything else. There is no atonement that somehow can be detached from who the Lord Jesus is. There is no grace that can be attached to you transferred from Him. All there is, is Christ and your soul.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#18. Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

Paloma Faith

#19. I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.

Sandra Bernhard

#20. Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.

Francis Alys

#21. The long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts.

Kofi Annan

#22. She was nothing like me; she was everything like me. How was that even possible?

Diana Peterfreund