France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.


Raoul Dufy

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we'll end up being the France of the 21st century.
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VICTOR HUGO
Wiretapping has a long history of enthusiastic use in France.
STEWART BAKER
Apple now has to either open up or close down [in France].
ALEXANDER ROSS
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. -Raoul Dufy.
RAOUL DUFY
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century Americ...
FRANK CROWNINSHIELD
France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
THOMAS CARLYLE
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
JULIA CHILD
Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.
GOERAN GENTELE
France has noticed a light, or gradual, evolution in the American position.
DENIS SIMONNEAU
My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collec...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Up until the mid-19th century serving refreshments and socializing on the stoops was done by every i...
CHARLES LOCKWOOD
Although it is hard to see why any sensible authority would feel threatened by the peaceful expressi...
NAZANIN BONIADI
Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.
CARLY SIMON
I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED
France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from overt...
ALBISSATY ALLAZAM
France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from overt...
ALBISSATY SALEH ALLAZAM
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of...
JOSCHKA FISCHER
I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents...
BONNIE MCKEE
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with ...
EMMANUELLE BEART
This is a political decision because of pressure from France ... France has fraudulently interpreted...
MARTIN BESIEUX
It's wonderful, elegant taste. It's a beautiful collection of American, 19th-century and Impressioni...
DAVID NORMAN
In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it fo...
ALAIN DUCASSE
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they wer...
LILLIAN HELLMAN
Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French ...
MARIO MONTI
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONET
I picked him up in a gutter, and saved him for France.
LUCIE UTRILLO
It was true in the 19th century, and it's true today.
LAWRENCE M. OTTER
For far too many people, 19th century working and living standards will continue unchanged into the ...
BILL JORDAN
François Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly independent nati...
JACQUES ATTALI
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with...
KAREN ARMSTRONG
I love France. France is a nice place.
BUBBA WATSON
I was France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything...
NICK CLEGG
Any German chancellor has to have close relations with France, ... Merkel will have a close relation...
KARSTEN VOIGT
There was a misunderstanding with France and the French,
CRAIG STAPLETON
Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the more. [Fr., Il n'y a rien de change ...
COMTE D'ARTOIS (LATER CHARLES X)
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty i...
DOUGLAS SIRK
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our...
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Every time I have [played against France], I have played inside centre. But still, because he is the...
MATT GITEAU
France has a tradition in the fight between David and Goliath of protecting the little guy. France i...
FRANCOIS G. LAUGIER
I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices y...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE
Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He bel...
GEORGE W. TRUETT
One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movem...
KATE FORSYTH
François Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly i...
JACQUES ATTALI
France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against t...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH
Until 2005, France had the only senior Catholic prelate in modern times who was born Jewish and stil...
TOM REISS
France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
GAVIN BRYARS
We made the change for the France game but playing Australia it's right to go back to Tindall. He is...
CLIVE WOODWARD
France is great because she is France.
VICTOR HUGO
I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
YOGI BERRA
I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
STEPHEN SPROUSE
In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
ALAN PARSONS
Every man has two countries, his own and France.
HENRI DE BORNIER
Every man has two countries, his own and France
HENRI DE BORNIER
The specialty egg segment has grown dramatically in the last eight or nine years.
ALAN ANDREWS
This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France'...
BERNARD PIVOT
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE
I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym ...
JANUARY JONES
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarc...
NEIL POSTMAN
Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century stor...
JANE AUSTEN
Edgeworth has been the foremost economist in England during the latter part of the 19th century and ...
LUDWIG VON MISES
The ultimate goal is enhancing the appreciation on the part of the marketplace to 19th century Ameri...
HANK MARTIN
When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER
Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family wor...
BERNARD ARNAULT
In France, the auditions and the plays aren't good, they're too laid back. And I remember in the Lon...
EVA GREEN
Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!]
ETIENNE BEQUET
It will be like riding in the Tour de France. We've got hills, time trials, road races and wind. Of ...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER
Eric Manly, a senior captain, was in France for a school trip.
ERICKA FANGIULLO
I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I ...
MOIRA KELLY
I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was...
STEPHANIE PERKINS
The France that gets up early to go to work in the morning
NICOLAS SARKOZY
I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]
NICEPHORUS
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
France isn't a country that's massively racist. There's an enormous amount of mixing that occurs in ...
DOMINIQUE SOPO
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time...
TWYLA THARP
I was born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, orig...
CLAUDE COHEN-TANNOUDJI
They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroe...
GERHARD SCHROEDER
We've had them up to eight and nine pounds. But they were eight to nine years old, too. Normal brown...
CLYDE WELSH
Commitments have been made and France will live up to them.
JACQUES CHIRAC
Dogs smoke in France
OZZY OSBOURNE
France sees China as an important part of that. China and France have declared a strategic partnersh...
ADAM SEGAL
But Russia are strong with or without Safin, they beat France without him in the quarterfinals and D...
MARIO ANCIC
I'm looking forward to France, ... France has been really good to me the last three years, I've been...
ANDY IRONS
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century...
CLEMENT ATTLEE
According to the Koran and the Hadith, aggressive warfare for the purpose of imposing Islam on the w...
BRIGITTE GABRIEL
The painting was only outside France once, in 1955, when it was in a Giorgione exhibition in Venice.
DAVID BROWN
After that I will go straight to France and join my team. Honestly, one should not compare the socce...
FAISAL KHALIL
I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I wa...
JACKY IDO
I was never going 'I want a big car and a house in France' and all that,
ARABELLA WEIR
They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!
STEPHANIE PERKINS
France will catch Spain up and possibly go beyond it by 2008.
ALAIN JEANROY

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