D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Creativity is to think more efficiently.

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.

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.

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers

I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

All problems in mathematics are psychological.

Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.

You can laugh of everything, but not with everybody.

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.