Leonor Fini Quotes

#1. The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

Ethel Smyth

#2. You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers

Horace

#3. Our job as managers in creative environments is to protect new ideas from those who don't understand that in order for greatness to emerge, there must be phases of not-so-greatness. Protect the future, not the past.

Ed Catmull

#4. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.

William Booth

#5. I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.

Leonor Fini

#6. Marriage never appealed to me, I have never lived with one person. Since I was 18, I've always preferred to live in a sort of community - A big house with my atelier and cats and friends, one with a man who was rather a lover and another who was rather a friend. And it has always worked

Leonor Fini

#7. A woman should live with two men; one more a lover and the other more a friend.

Leonor Fini

#8. When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

Brittany Howard

#9. I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely admire, And my heart is as grey as my head.

William Shakespeare

#10. I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.

Leonor Fini

#11. What could be more intimate than dying with someone?

Sarah Lotz

#12. Good news for orange lovers: citrus fruit intake has been associated with reduced stroke risk.

Michael Greger

#13. A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

Evagrius Ponticus

#14. The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.

Ben Shahn

#15. All men are liars. All women are liars, too.

Ilona Andrews

#16. When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

Leonor Fini