Rouault Quotes

#1. The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

Georges Rouault

#2. A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

Georges Rouault

#3. You don't know what you have until it's not there anymore.

William Moseley

#4. In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.

Georges Rouault

#5. Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

Georges Rouault

#6. The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

Ray Romano

#7. Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

Georges Rouault

#8. I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.

Imelda May

#9. Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

Georges Rouault

#10. I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

Georges Rouault

#11. The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

Georges Rouault

#12. For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

Georges Rouault

#13. Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Georges Rouault

#14. A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.

Oleg Cassini

#15. I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

Anne Lamott

#16. The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

Georges Rouault

#17. Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

Georges Rouault

#18. It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#19. My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

Georges Rouault

#20. I am a believer and a conformist.

Georges Rouault

#21. Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

Osho

#22. I don't mind the risk, because the risk makes it more interesting

Ruth Ozeki

#23. Love is fatal; a snake that slithers into your life, poisons you with its venom and then leaves you there to die.

Callie Anderson

#24. We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

Tom Hanks