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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse
Art
Good
Balance
Matter
Mind
Fatigue
Relaxation
Dream
Physical
Rather
Purity
Troubling
Soothing
Armchair
Like
Devoid
Calming
Subject
Subject Matter
Provides
Influence
Which
Depressing
Serenity
An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.
David Bowie
Life
Family
Spiritual
Interior
Own
Philosophies
Say
Would
Find
Religious
About
Ongoing
My Own
Armchair
Catholic
Because
Protestant
Always
Been
Link
Trying
Maybe
Separate
Whole
Search
Thing
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
Nick Cave
Gardening
Garden
Dirty
Knees
Armchair
Like
Get
Interest
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Stephen Fry
Myself
Home
Writing
Smoking
Down
Think
Armchair
Like
Occasionally
Shop
Wandering
When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, I thought we'd definitely have one of those by 15, at the latest.
Stella Young
Thought
Seven
Latest
Those
Definitely
Featured
Armchair
Beyond
Episode
Floating
Watched
Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.
Juliette Binoche
Waiting
Phone
Sometimes
Meet
Ring
Stay
Directors
Pushy
Armchair
Call
Go
Just
Happens
Them
Naturally
Grown-up parties are so dull they make me want to throw a tantrum and hurl red wine on the nearest cream-damask armchair.
Claudia Winkleman
Me
Wine
Hurl
Throw
Red
Armchair
Red Wine
Parties
Make
Tantrum
Dull
Want
Grown-Up
Nearest
Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen.
Jenna Morasca
Home
Our
TV
Armchair
Opinions
Yelling
Comments
Survivor
Screen
Show
Play
Watch
Honest
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.
Alan Ball
Great
Character
Degree
Think
Way
All Writers
Sexuality
Some
Writers
Armchair
Identity
Great Way
Another
Because
Get
Personal
Psychologists
Personal Thing
Root
Really
Fascinating
Thing
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.
Arthur Smith
Will
Kind
Guy
Armchair
Always
Which
Raining
When I was a child, I always went to my grandmother's house in Nuremberg for Christmas. My uncle would leave the room, saying he needed the toilet, and then he would reappear dressed as Santa Claus. I was really scared - I'd have to go and hide behind an armchair.
Juergen Teller
Christmas
Saying
Hide
Uncle
Nuremberg
Would
Scared
Dressed
He
Armchair
House
Always
Leave
Go
Child
Behind
Room
Then
Grandmother
Really
Toilet
Santa
Santa Claus
Needed
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
Edward Carpenter
Life
Down
Settled
Exactly
Simply
Armchair
Know
Literary
Might
Really
Why
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
John Jay Chapman
Truth
Vision
Our
Out
Armchair
Call
Does
Get
Which
Mankind
Us
Why