Paris Quotes - Page 29

• When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

  Paula Fox

  Block, Glasses, Order

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.35, Macmillan

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• A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.

  Paula Fox

  War, Cities, Islands

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Fashion, Strong, Accents

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses.

  Sophie Irene Loeb

  Glasses, House, Stones

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• Everything begins in Paris.

  Nancy Spain

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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• It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

  Nancy Spain

  Cities, Village, Way

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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• The perfect classroom is Paris.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Perfect, Classroom

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.

  David Nicholls

  Baby, Lonely, Jealous

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• Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

  Nina Berberova

  New York, Cutting, Reality

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• Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.

  Nina Berberova

  Reflection, Essence, Cities

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• [On Paris:] It exists, constant, eternal, surrounding us who live in it, and it is in us. We love it or hate it, but we cannot escape it. It is a circle of associations in which man exists, being himself a circle of associations. Having entered it and come out of it we are not what we were before knowing it: it devoured us, we devoured it, and the problem is not did we or didn't we want it. We consumed each other. It courses in our blood.

  Nina Berberova

  Hate, Men, Knowing

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• They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.

  Giacomo Balla

  Progress, Gone, Want

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• I, Tivadar Kosztka, who gave up his prime of youth for the rebirth of the world, accepting the call of the invisible Spirit, had a regular civil job, comfort, wealth then... Going to Paris in 1907 I oppositely standed alone in front of millions with only the result of the divine providence, and I beat the vanity of the world hollow, but I haven't killed 10 million people, only sobered them. I haven't made commercials from things, because I didn't care for the pedlar's press; I retired from the world instead, going to the top of the Lebanons, and I painted cedars.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Jobs, Vanity, People

  "The Positivum". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, written between 1910-1920.

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• I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

  Helen Bevington

  Past, Self, Return

  Helen Bevington (1988). “The Journey Is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies”, p.91, Duke University Press

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• It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Scary, Honor

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• Heading to Paris when I was 17 and modelling exposed me to high fashion, which influenced me to dress on-trend - not extravagantly, but always in fashion.

  Suzy Amis

  Fashion, Dresses, Trends

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• Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.

  Jay Leno

  Jail, People, Upset

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• Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

  Jemima West

  School, Parent, Grew

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• Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span.

  Bram van Velde

  Art, Essence, Way

  "A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger". Book by Bram van Velde, Deurne, p. 44, Letter to H. E. Kramer, October 25, 1926, 1994.

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• In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.

  Janet Scudder

  Long, May, Matter

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• Paris is so beautiful. Mr. President, you should really think about going there sometime.

  Cecily Strong

  Beautiful, Thinking, President

  "Transcript for Cecily Strong Remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner". abcnews.go.com. April 26, 2015.

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• In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.

  John Lennon

  Music, Three, Records

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• I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, New York, Artist

  "My art is a form of restoration". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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