What did Honoré de Balzac mean by: In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it. Honoré de Balzac Writer · France Copy
Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Consistency, Kindness, Stupidity, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Hatred, Journalism, Power., 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Duality, Materialism, Spirituality, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Art, Imagination, Perception, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Influence, Perception, Relationships, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Love, Rejection, Tyranny, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist’s imagination. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Faith, Imagination, Love, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Deception, Manipulation, Power, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. Jean-Georges Noverre Choreographer · France
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
