La Belle Noiseuse Quotes

#1. The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

Emmanuelle Beart

#2. It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#3. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Samantha Chase

#4. If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

Lisa Kleypas

#5. Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.

K.W. Jeter

#6. Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being.
To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

John Sayles

#8. An aggravating feature of this post-9/11 atmosphere is to cast suspicions on Muslims and on Islam as a religion that is interpreted as either inherently violent or death-oriented, with a particular animus against America and Americans.

Richard A. Falk

#9. Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free victims and stop this crime that's become ever more aggressive, that threatens not just individuals, but the foundational values of society.

Pope Francis

#10. This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage.

Walter Lord

#11. Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

William Cowper

#12. The angels of God are bright and shining beings, emanating light and mirroring the glory of God.

Basilea Schlink