Tamara de Lempicka quotes

Tamara de Lempicka quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.”
-- Tamara de Lempicka

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“I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.”
-- Tamara de Lempicka

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“My goal is never to copy. Create a new style.”
-- Tamara de Lempicka

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“My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.”
-- Tamara de Lempicka

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“A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.”

Source : "Aaron Sorkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.
“For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Poems of Cowley”, p.113
“Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.”
“This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.”
“I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.”
“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”
“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013
“When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.”
“My paintings are the last paintings one can make.”
“It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.”

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