Edouard Beaupre Quotes

Because I know war ... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it ... After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this ... ~ Edouard Boubat

By the power vested in me I grant myself light. ~ Jessica Edouard

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale. ~ Edouard Vuillard

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. ~ Edouard Manet

When you were awake, stretched out in your bed in the dark, shutters drawn, your thoughts would flow freely. They would grow obscure when you got up and opened the curtains. The violence of daylight would efface the nocturnal clarity. In the daytime, people were barriers, dividing you up, preventing you from hearing what you listened to at night: the voice of your brain. ~ Edouard Leve

I don't write in the morning, my brain isn't up to it yet, I don't write in the afternoon, I'm too sad, I write from five o'clock on, I need to have been awake a long time, my body relaxed from a day's fatigue. ~ Edouard Leve

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety? ~ Edouard Manet

I would kiss you, had I the courage. ~ Edouard Manet

One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both. ~ Edouard Bourdet

Edouard, I have spent so many hours wrestling with my faith - my lack of faith - but now, in this fearful corner of an all but forgotten world, riddled as I am with this loathsome parasite, I have somehow rediscovered a strength of belief the likes of which I have not known since you and I were boys. I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it. Day ~ Dan Simmons

To know makes me grow
Not to know harms me
To forget frees me. ~ Edouard Leve

I want this epitaph engraved on my tombstone: "See you soon ~ Edouard Leve

This selfishness of your suicide displeased you. But, all things considered, the lull of death won out over life's painful commotion. ~ Edouard Leve

With patience everything comes in due season. ~ Edouard Rene De Laboulaye

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist. ~ Edouard Vuillard

In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting. ~ Edouard Boubat

I wanted to live as Edouard did, joyfully, sucking the marrow out of every moment and singing because it tasted so good. ~ Jojo Moyes

There is no art without a poetic aim. ~ Edouard Vuillard

Time is lacking for me
Space is enough for me
The void attracts me ~ Edouard Leve

Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out. ~ Edouard Boubat

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game. ~ Romain Edouard

Your taste for abbreviation meant that instead of finishing the works you undertook, you finished yourself. You ~ Edouard Leve

I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking. ~ Lesley Manville

The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it. ~ Edouard Boubat

To describe my life precisely would take longer than to live it. ~ Edouard Leve

Your shutters were closed. The room was bathed in a soft red light. You were listening to "I Talk to the Wind" by King Crimson [...] It made me think of a nightclub. It was broad daylight outside. ~ Edouard Leve

In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved. ~ Edouard Leve

There is no need to camouflage an already perfect canvas. ~ Jessica Edouard

Once you confessed to someone that you had been very depressed when dining with her several months earlier. She was stunned, discovering her blindness like a time bomb. And you, faithful, kept a straight face. You ~ Edouard Leve

Speaking commits me Listening teaches me Silence tempers me Birth ~ Edouard Leve