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“The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.”
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Ludwig Bemelmans
#Art Quotes
#Purpose Quotes
#Purpose Of Art Quotes
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“Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.”
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Source : Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”
#Artist Quotes
#Perfection Quotes
#Gourmet Quotes
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“Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good”
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Source : Ludwig Bemelmans (1952). “The happy place”
#Appreciation Quotes
#Real Quotes
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“It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.”
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Source : Ludwig Bemelmans (2006). “When You Lunch with the Emperor: The Adventures of Ludwig Bemelmans”
#Police Quotes
#Helping Quotes
#Wonderful Quotes
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“To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.”
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Source : Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”
#Father Quotes
#Gourmet Quotes
#Riding Quotes
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“I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.”
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Ludwig Bemelmans
#Book Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Done Quotes
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“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.”
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Source : 1939 Madeline.
#Girl Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Paris Quotes
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“America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.”
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Ludwig Bemelmans
#Food Quotes
#Character Quotes
#Order Quotes
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“Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.”
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Source : Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”
#Girl Quotes
#Dining Quotes
#Dresses Quotes
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“For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.”
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Ludwig Bemelmans
#Going Away Quotes
#Gypsy Quotes
