D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.

Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

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.

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my action.

The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Everything that rises must converge.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

Swifter, higher, stronger.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.

Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.

Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image.

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Je serais reconnaissant a toute personne ayant compris cette demonstration de me l'expliquer.