Juliette Binoche Quotes

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing or dressing up. On the dance floor, I had my own unique steps and often had to lead my choreographer.

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

When I watch a show, I want to feel like it is coming out of someone's head, not out of a boardroom.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness… He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.

To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive that gives you a lot of room for unique and individual expression. Whatever you're interested in can become something you kind of own in your group of skater friends.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

You're supposed to be who you are. You're supposed to make music that is true to you.

When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.