Excellent Quote by Joris-Karl Huysmans Download Open image “The modern painter…is an excellent couturier” — Joris-Karl Huysmans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excellent Inspirational Modern Painter Painting
I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary. — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern artist. If… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician,… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“There is not one single invention of (Nature's), however subtle or impressive it may be thought to be, that the human spirit cannot create;… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
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(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“What he wanted was colours which would appear stronger and clearer in artificial light. He did not particularly care if they looked crude or… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
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If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
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President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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