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Photographier : c'est mettre sur la même ligne de mire la tête, l'oeil et le coeur.


Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Mais l'haine se repete.
Laissez pas la peur dominer le coeur, <...
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UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Le serpent qui danse

Que j'aime voir, chère indolente,
De ton corps si beau,...
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KARL MARX Wanderess, Wanderess,
emporte-nous dans un récit
de séduction et de ruse.
Héroï...
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HENRI NOUWEN An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepar...
HENRI MATISSE Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
HENRI MATISSE Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very groun...
HENRI NOUWEN For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be domi...
HENRI NOUWEN It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used desc...
HENRI MATISSE Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis a...
HENRI NOUWEN Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did ...
HENRI NOUWEN Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
HENRI MATISSE A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't ...
HENRI MATISSE Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and close...
HENRI NOUWEN When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perce...
HENRI BERGSON Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; m...
HENRI POINCARé All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
ROBERT HENRI I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on b...
HENRI MATISSE Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSON Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the expe...
HENRI NOUWEN Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering...
HENRI NOUWEN What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subje...
HENRI MATISSE If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we r...
HENRI POINCARE Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
HENRI BERGSON Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSON The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, bu...
HENRI NOUWEN The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tensi...
HENRI NOUWEN The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual ...
HENRI NOUWEN The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward i...
HENRI NOUWEN The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an...
HENRI NOUWEN Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we h...
HENRI NOUWEN In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main way...
HENRI NOUWEN I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
HENRI MATISSE I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our sol...
HENRI BARBUSSE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to k...
HENRI POINCARE The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam...
HENRI PIRENNE The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, a...
HENRI POINCARE If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishe...
HENRI POINCARE Work cures everything.
HENRI MATISSE A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of fo...
HENRI POINCARE To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing t...
HENRI NOUWEN To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense ...
HENRI POINCARE Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of st...
HENRI POINCARE Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A great many of those about me would be im...
HENRI PERRIN To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
HENRI AMIEL Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren...
HENRI AMIEL A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla...
HENRI AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI AMIEL Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t...
HENRI AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI AMIEL Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI AMIEL We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, ...
HENRI BERGSON Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
HENRI POINCARE To invent is to discern, to choose.
HENRI POINCARE Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G...
HENRI NOUWEN The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...
HENRI POINCARE If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
HENRI MATISSE The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
HENRI BERGSON Do whatever you do intensely.
ROBERT HENRI Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which ...
HENRI BERGSON There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
ROBERT HENRI Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are...
HENRI MATISSE There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he...
HENRI MATISSE