Francois Millet Quotes

#1. Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.

Whitney M. Young

#2. It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

Jean-Francois Millet

#3. What molds us is what maims us.

Dennis Lehane

#4. I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Willem De Kooning

#5. Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?

David Letterman

#6. The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled lands.

Jean-Francois Millet

#7. A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

Jean-Francois Millet

#8. Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

Jean-Francois Millet

#9. I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#10. He simply knew his own mind and found it company enough.

Ian Johnstone

#11. Without knowing how to calculate the odds on such matters, it seems improbably to me that God would have whispered the meaning of my life into the ear of some guru or authority.

Sam Keen

#12. Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.

Jean-Francois Millet

#13. Faith is active and action word.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

Robin G. Collingwood

#16. I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

Jean-Francois Millet