Quotes by french authors

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. Claude Monet
Love Art People Pretend Simply Understand Were Discuss To Love Necessary
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
Art Me You Photography Everything Way Finding See About Something Observation Ordinary Place Interesting Little Them Found Things
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Eric Cantona
Will Think Follow Thrown Because Sea Seagull
I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert. Eugene Ionesco
Music Great Eyes Walk Sit Down Rug Ears Dessert Out Eating Fingers Ten Open Bottom Put Head Look Box Spread Pillow Ceiling Wall Jam After While Chair Floor Two
Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet. Francois Nars
Balance Statement Eye About Makes Makeup Quiet Lips Should
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand
Work Strength Man Reward Pleasure Punishment His
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
Happiness Health Good Good Health Selfish Stupidity Three Stupid Lost Though Lacking Requirements
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Gustave Flaubert
Nothing Humiliating Enterprises See More Failed Idiots Than Succeed
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse
Happiness Work Good Day Fog Oneself Surrounds Us Derive Illuminating
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. Henri Matisse
Art Soul Impressionism Newspaper
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Environmental History Earth More Previous Than Done Human Century Mankind Human History Damage
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Jean-Paul Sartre
Life You Illusion Lose Being Eternal Meaning Moment
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. Jean de La Fontaine
Enemy Dangerous Nothing More Without Friend Discretion Than Prudent Preferable Even
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. Joan of Arc
God Will Would Something Rather Sin Know Than Die Which Against
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. Louis Pasteur
Success Strength Me You Secret Solely Tell Lies Tenacity Goal Led
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. Marc Chagall
Opposites Neighbors Colors Friends Lovers
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. Marquis de Lafayette
Try Sense Think Out Examine Put Study Idea Read Listen Common Form Which Common Sense Much
Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind. Matthieu Ricard
Peace Emotions Mind Negative Hatred Peace Of Mind Our Destroy Like
The king must die so that the country can live. Maximilien Robespierre
King Country Live Must Die
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. Montesquieu
Government Deterioration Almost Principles Always Begins Decay
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. Montesquieu
Be Happy Happy People Difficult Think Other Would Would-Be Easy Only Almost Since Always Than Want Wanted Happier Them
It requires more courage to suffer than to die. Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage More Than Die Requires Suffer
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. Napoleon Bonaparte
Fear Men Only Self Self-Interest Moved Interest Two
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. Napoleon Bonaparte
Bench Only Throne Velvet Covered
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Napoleon Bonaparte
Only Step Sublime Ridiculous
The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish. Nostradamus
Time Satan World Events Will Rare Before Undone Desolate Birds Air Later Evils Vanish Entire Entire World Shall Sometime Almost Prince Cry Antichrist Infernal Committed Happen Again Means Many Found Now Last Third Last Time
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