Camille Quotes

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

One must practice slowly, then more slowly, and finally slowly.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.

I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

I like good company, but I like hard work still better.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

Teaching is a performance art.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

Burning is no answer.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Never lose the first impression which has moved you.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

The Dionysian is no picnic.