Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product.


Francois-Henri Pinault

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The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
HENRI PIRENNE
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may ...
HENRI PIRENNE
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
HENRI ROUSSEAU
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSON
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead ...
HENRI NOUWEN
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
HENRI MATISSE
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all...
HENRI MATISSE
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures...
HENRI MATISSE
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC
• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventiv...
ROBERT HENRI
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
ROBERT HENRI
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is...
ROBERT HENRI
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we co...
HENRI POINCARE
Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
HENRI POINCARE
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighb...
HENRI BERGSON
The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.
HENRI MURGER
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
HENRI MATISSE
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
HENRI POINCARE
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and ...
HENRI NOUWEN
Mathematicians are born, not made.
HENRI POINCARE
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
HENRI POINCARE
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
ROBERT HENRI
We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky ...
HENRI MATISSE
You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world f...
HENRI NOUWEN
Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, ...
HENRI BARBUSSE
Quando alguém tem força para vencer a si mesmo, nasceu para grandes empreendimentos.
HENRI LACORDAIRE
Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n...
HENRI BARBUSSE
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSON
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole ...
HENRI BERGSON
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON
The motive power of democracy is love
HENRI BERGSON
The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the...
HENRI BERGSON
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
HENRI NOUWEN
It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
ROBERT HENRI
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
ROBERT HENRI
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie...
HENRI POINCARE