French Art Quotes

France cannot be France without grandeur.

I am typically French.

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

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.

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.

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.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

My life is OK. I live in France. It's a very cool country to make films.

The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

France is, for me, the country of happiness.

I feel French, beyond the passport.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.

France is great because she is France.

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life.

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

France is a strong, wealthy country.

I owe everything to France.