Alphonse Mucha quotes

“The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.”
-- Alphonse Mucha

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“Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message”
-- Alphonse Mucha

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“Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.”

“A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.”

“Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.”

“The relationship is the communication bridge between people.”

Source : Alfred Kadushin, Professor Alfred Kadushin, Goldie Kadushin (2013). “The Social Work Interview”, p.82, Columbia University Press

“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.”

“People, when they come up to me, are like, Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp? And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.”

Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.

“I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.”

“I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.”

“The Almighty has His own purposes.”

“Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.”

Source : "Islam Is a Faith of Reason". Interview with Stefan Aust and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. October 12, 2006.