Sainte Chapelle Quotes

Evening Concert, Sainte-Chapelle
The celebrated windows flamed with light
directly pouring north across the Seine;
we rustled into place. Then violins
vaunting Vivaldi's strident strength, then Brahms,
seemed to suck with their passionate sweetness,
bit by bit, the vigor from the red,
the blazing blue, so that the listening eye
saw suddenly the thick black lines, in shapes
of shield and cross and strut and brace, that held
the holy glowing fantasy together.
The music surged; the glow became a milk,
a whisper to the eye, a glimmer ebbed
until our beating hearts, our violins
were cased in thin but solid sheets of lead. ~ John Updike

Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing. ~ Janice Macleod

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer ... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering; which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the middle ages, and asked charity, under pretence of going à la sainte terre" - to the holy land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a sainte-terrer", a saunterer - a holy-lander. They who never go to the holy land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds, but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all, but the Saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which indeed is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit (1) in us, to go forth and reconquer this holy land from the hands of the Infidels. ~ Henry David Thoreau

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway. ~ Andre Sainte-Lague

Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so frequently observed in volcanic eruptions and emanations, and to which M. Ch. Sainte-Claire Deville has called attention in recent years? Finally, must one assign a parralel origin to carbonaceous matter and to hydrocarbons contained in certain meteorites, and which appear to have an origin foreign to our planet? These are questions on which the opinion of many distinguished geologists does not as yet appear to be fixed. ~ Marcellin Berthelot

Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to explore and experience our cultures and the perspectives that are embedded in our cultures. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids ... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to. ~ Tyler, The Creator

SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Better to find out for yourself ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting. ~ Etel Adnan

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

If you want to succeed, limit yourself. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

THERE are so many things which are impossible to explain! Why should certain chords in music make me think of the brown and golden tints of autumn foliage? Why should the Mass of Sainte-Cécile send my thoughts wandering among caverns whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin silver? What was it in the roar and turmoil of Broadway at six o'clock that flashed before my eyes the picture of a still Breton forest where sunlight filtered through spring foliage, and Sylvia bent, half curiously, half tenderly, over a small, green lizard, murmuring, "To think that this also is a little ward of God? ~ Robert W. Chambers

I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

When the destiny of a nation is in a woman's bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. - CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE ~ Eleanor Herman

Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them." ~ John Muir

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid.
-responding to an idiot in the audience during a stand-up performance who would not stop yelling "I'm Rick James B***h". ~ Dave Chapelle

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle . ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve