Soulages Painting Quotes

#1. And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.

Ian Campbell Ross

#3. Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Pierre Soulages

#4. I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

Pierre Soulages

#5. This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.

John Marshall

#6. It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.

Sidney Sheldon

#7. At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.

Pierre Soulages

#8. President Obama had lunch with Republican leaders at the White House today and had to do without salt, pepper and butter. Not for dietary reasons. The Republicans refused to pass anything.

Jay Leno

#9. Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

Pierre Soulages

#10. Redeem the misspent time that's past,
And live this day as 'twere thy last.

Thomas Ken

#11. I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

Pierre Soulages

#12. Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Michel Foucault

#13. Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

Pierre Soulages

#14. While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

Anthony Holden

#15. If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

Pierre Soulages

#16. I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.

Pierre Soulages

#17. It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

Pierre Soulages

#18. Is this overwhelming attraction really mutual, or is my believing that just a sign of impending insanity? Is my lunacy on the horizon, or is already here?

Ellen Hopkins

#19. What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

William Blake

#20. For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

Pierre Soulages