Raoul Dufy Quotes

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.

I am typically French.

France cannot be France without grandeur.

The best picture I can give of the French Nation, is that of Cattle before a Thunder Storm.

France is an old country that does not forget.

The French are ... the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference.

France is a strong, wealthy country.

I feel French, beyond the passport.

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.

In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

France is, for me, the country of happiness.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

In France, history is paralyzing.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.

I have been intrigued by Catherine de Medici and the legends surrounding her for a long time.

I was France.