Sainte-beuve Quotes & Sayings

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

I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive ... You don't want to give people the information in an enema. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

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

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

I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took. — Morrissey

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

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

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end? — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid. — 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

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

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

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me. — 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

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

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

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

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

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

I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual. — David Ginola

Quand me" me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e" tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me" me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist. — Charles Baudelaire

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

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Better to find out for yourself — Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

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

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that. I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. All I had was my originality. — 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

There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?" — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it. — Marcel Duchamp

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

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

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

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

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive. — 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

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

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have to leave room in life to dream. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg. — Jay Leno

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Every time somebody makes an Indian movie ... Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt ... the fashion industry cashes in. — 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

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

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

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