Stephane Quotes & Sayings

While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look. — Stephane Rolland

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. — Stephane Mallarme

I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is; I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home. — Stephane Hessel

Equilibrium is the state of death, only chaos produces life
The Ancient Greeks have been driven to extinction by too much search for architectural harmony. — Stephane Lupasco

All thoughts emit a throw of dice — Stephane Mallarme

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged. — Stephane Hessel

It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself. — Stephane Mallarme

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo. — Stephane Rolland

I go to see the shadow you have become. — Stephane Mallarme

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin. — Stephane Grappelli

I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people. — Stephane Hessel

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion. — Marc Garneau

I don't know why but I love this kind of project, when it's a little difficult and when you have a history. The beginning of the story of viticulture was in the Middle East, and it was a different generation than the science and logistics of today. My passion is to go into the past to make wine. Wine is something cultural, not only something to drink. I always try to find the identity of the place. — Stephane Derenoncourt

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book. — Stephane Mallarme

I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability ... — Stephane Dion

We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars. — Stephane Simian

The pret-a-porter collection will be the same as couture in essence: I love luxury, beautiful products, handmade with care, but at more accessible prices. — Stephane Rolland

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine. — Stephane Hessel

I can see my reflection like that of an angel!
And I feel that I am dying, and, through the medium
Of art or of mystical experience, I want to be reborn,
Wearing my dream like a diadem, in some better land
Where beauty flourishes. — Stephane Mallarme

I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it's bad news for that country. — Stephane Hessel

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book. — Stephane Mallarme

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas. — Stephane Mallarme

Dreams have as much influences as actions. — Stephane Mallarme

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.' — Stephane Hessel

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing. — Stephane Mallarme

As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law. — Stephane Hessel

I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra. — Stephane Rolland

Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam. — Stephane Simian

As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White. — Stephane Rolland

O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones. — Stephane Mallarme

To create is to resist; to resist is to create. — Stephane Hessel

I love a woman with a relaxed attitude. — Stephane Rolland

Dreams have as much influence as actions. — Stephane Mallarme

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. — Stephane Mallarme

Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul. So sublime, my friend, that I want to gaze upon matter, fully conscious that it exists, and yet launching itself madly into Dream, despite its knowledge that Dream has no existence, extolling the Soul and all the divine impressions of that kind which have collected within us from the beginning of time and proclaiming, in the face of the Void which is truth, these glorious lies! — Stephane Mallarme

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter. — Stephane Audeguy

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism. — Stephane Hessel

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty
and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie. — Stephane Mallarme

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery. — Stephane Mallarme

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. — Stephane Mallarme

I love to sit, to watch people; even in New York, I don't feel as free as in London. — Stephane Rolland

I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has exactly that attitude. — Stephane Rolland

Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers. — Stephane Audeguy

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books. — Stephane Mallarme

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law. — Stephane Hessel

The law of computers is the same as the law of the marketplace. The earth's atmosphere was divided up into a network of cubes, each reducible to a collection of points, and each point the product of a set of calculations. As far as science was concerned, this was the end of clouds, which were but a series of coordinates simulated in a space of greater than three dimensions. — Stephane Audeguy

The worst possible outlook is indifference that says, "I can't do anything about it; I'll just get by." Behaving like that deprives you of one of the essentials of being human: the capacity and the freedom to feel outraged. That freedom is indispensable, as is the political involvement that goes with it. — Stephane Hessel

exiled spirits, red
as the spotless toe of a seraph spread
with scarlet by the shame of rumpled dawns — Stephane Mallarme

The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth. — Stephane Mallarme

Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard. — Xavier Niel

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. — Stephane Mallarme

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. — Stephane Mallarme

I should point out, creating one's own style, as much as is required to illustrate one of the aspects, the golden seam of language, involves beginning again at once, in a different manner, adopting the guise of a pupil when one risked becoming pedantic - thus by a shrugging of one's shoulders, disconcerting some with their genuflecting stance, and immortalizing oneself in multiple, impersonal, or even anonymous forms in response to the gesture of arms raised in stupefaction. — Stephane Mallarme

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces. — Stephane Mallarme

In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that. — Stephane Mallarme

A roll of the dice will never abolish chance. — Stephane Mallarme

A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night. — Stephane Mallarme

If there can be a planet there
There will be a planet there. — Stephane Udry

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved. — Stephane Hessel

When we had our children, our ideas changed somewhat. Thenceforward we lived only for them; they made all our happiness and we would never have found it save in them. In fact, nothing any longer cost us anything; the world was no longer a burden to us. As for me, my children were my great compensation, so that I wished to have many in order to bring them up for Heaven. — Rev. Fr. Stephane-Joseph Piat

The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century. — Stephane Hessel

The world exists to end up in a book. — Stephane Mallarme

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good. — Stephane Hessel

There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural. — Stephane Audeguy

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere. — Stephane Hessel

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories. — Stephane Hessel

Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god. — Stephane Grappelli

My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life. — Stephane Hessel

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books. — Stephane Mallarme

I've been tremendously lucky. I went through things that turned out wrong, and I got myself out of them. — Stephane Hessel

There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul. — Stephane Mallarme

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. — Stephane Mallarme

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create. — Stephane Mallarme

A heavy gas generated by the fermentation of equally dense ideas, stupidity is the most common renewable source of energy, the easiest to extract, and the least costly, except when coupled with nuclear energy. — Stephane Mot

The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources. Doing better with less means doing it more together. — Stephane Abrial

Verse is everywhere in language where there is rhythm, everywhere, except in notices and on page four of the papers. In the genre called prose, there are verses [ ... ] of all rhythms. But in truth there is no prose: there is the alphabet, and then verses more or less tight, more or less diffuse. — Stephane Mallarme

For we are always at one with the instrument of our magic spells. — Stephane Mallarme

One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort. — Stephane Audeguy

It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste. — Stephane Rolland

You made the sobbing white of lilies too,
tumbling lightly across a sea of sighs on
their dreamy way to weeping moonlight through
the azure incense of the pale horizon! — Stephane Mallarme