Sentences with phrase «french writer»

To quote French writer and Nobel prize winner Andre Gide: «Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.»

As French writer, Antoine de Saint - Exupéry once said, «A goal without a plan is just a wish.»

French writer Guy de Maupassant frequently ate lunch under the Eiffel Tower, not because he loved the iconic French structure, but because he hated it; he said the only place in Paris you could enjoy the view without the Eiffel Tower interrupting it was by sitting directly under it.

Although the French writer Jean - Baptiste Alphonse Karr certainly didn't have legal technologies in mind when he wrote this famous epigram, his sentiments ring true to the current state of e-discovery.

The famous French writer Victor Hugo said that the beautiful is more useful than the useful, so I hope that the beautiful images of my birds in flight will be useful to migratory birds and to humans.»

For a 1987 show of small gray paintings he has a passage from the French writer Maurice Blanchot typed up and affixed to a wall of the gallery.

A collaboration with English band Throbbing Gristle titled A =P =P = A = R = I = T = I =O = N was displayed at Tramway, Glasgow in 2009; with the title taken from a poem by the radical 19th - century French writer Stéphane Mallarmé, [16] Throbbing Gristle contributed a multi-channel soundtrack that was played through sixteen hanging Audio Spotlight sound panels that Evans had incorporated into his chandelier sculpture.

In his hilarious and alarming texts, and messy, ad hoc constructions, he has been compared to the crazy millionaire French writer Raymond Roussel.

Her play «Art» earned $ 200m and was performed in 35 languages — yet the French writer Yasmina Reza doesn't get the respect she feels she deserves.

Tress of Hair is based on two short stories written by the nineteenth - century French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Hamilton is strongly influenced by the early 20th century French writer and dramatist Antonin Artaud and his call for the «physical knowledge of images».

The second, is a small exhibition of works by other artists selected by Andy, called — «The Language of the Flowers and the Stars» — taking its title from a poem by French writer, Raymond Radiguet (who also died prematurely at the age of just 20)-- which aims to make «thingly time» manifest in physical forms, so far as the concept might be understood.

Georges Sebbag Born in 1942, Georges Sebbag is a French writer and doctor in Philosophy.

For The Consul, another book of interviews with him soon to be published in Britain, he chose, as an epigraph, a phrase from the French writer Marcel Schwob: «Flee the ruins, and don't cry in them.»

Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist.

This relief pays homage to the French writer Louis - Ferdinand Céline, whose unflinching portrayals of city life in novels such as Mort à crédit (Death on the Installment Plan, 1936) provided Oldenburg with an example of the experience of the street expressed directly through art.

These, among other factors, probably drove Michel Houellebecq, the French writer, to conceive The Possibility of an Island, which in turn served as a basis for the current exhibition with the same title at MOCA, Goldman Warehouse.

Its goal, according to its founding father, the French writer Andre Breton - in his 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism - was to fuse the unconscious (the part of the human mind where memories and instincts are stored) with the conscious, to create a new «super-reality» - a surréalisme.

Promising French writer shunned by literati publishes in English on web... If she builds it: they will come.

This two - part exhibition revolves around the nine months that the multifaceted French writer Antonin Artaud spent in Mexico in 1936 — particularly in the Sierra Tarahumara in the northwest of the country — and his short sojourn's multiple and extended aftermaths.

Drawing its title from French writer Jean Genet's Un Captif Amoureux, the exhibition looks at Danwen Xing's personal relationships with herself, her peers and her city.

As an example, two portraits, one of the French writer Virginie Despentes whose literary and cinematographic work sometimes refers to Malthusian feminism — which describes maternity as a «social function» to which women would be reduced to — and the other, the Pharaoh - queen Hatchepsout, condemned to oblivion through damnatio memoriae.

A remarkable series that brings the artist's idiosyncratic style to a musing on the nature of the deadly sins, the impetus behind Bernhard Martin's Im Immer originated in the controversy surrounding French writer Michel Houellebecq's novels.

His mysterious coded paintings reflect his introduction to the work of French writer Raymond Roussel, known for his phonetic and semantic wordplay, and his familiarity with the wit of Marcel Duchamp and Jasper Johns.

Phil Space: Shelley Horton - Trippe, in her recent exhibition High Brow Low Ride, references the great twentieth - century French writer Colette, and she does this by way of a large painting titled The Pure and the Impure (Colette).

Repeating this same color palette in her installation, Reynaud - Dewar has covered the walls of the Lobby Gallery with curtains partially dipped in black ink and inscribed with excerpts from French writer Guillaume Dustan's 1996 book In My Room.

His features and gestures reminded me of those of the French writer Antonin Artaud [1896 - 1948] as he appeared in photographs.

«Light Shall Lift Them» (Vander Barbette, Texas - born cross-dressing aerialist, and Jean Cocteau, French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker)

With his choice of the exhibition title, Kiefer dedicates the installation to the French writer Louis - Ferdinand Céline's book «Voyage au bout de la nuit» («Journey to the End of the Night») from 1932, which describes the demise of European humanism in the trenches of World War I. Famous for its gallows humour and world - weary misanthropy, the book is a darkly humorous and grotesque description of the meaninglessness and evil of war.

Like Duchamp, Wyn Evans is also fascinated by the infuriating systems that errant French writer and proto - surrealist Raymond Roussel imposed on his writing, a game that gave his work and thought structure.

This will be the artist's first solo exhibition in New York and is curated by French writer, historian and philosopher Paul Ardenne.

For a 1987 show of small grey paintings he has a passage from the French writer Maurice Blanchot typed up and affixed to a wall of the gallery.

Her multimedia practice draws from sources ranging from Baroque architecture, objects of design, fantasy and science fiction films, the urban landscape of Los Angeles, the invisible and contested spaces within her own home, and in her latest body of work, the works of French writer Marcel Proust.

In this project, Franquelo articulates his interest in time, memory, the subconscious, and what the French writer Georges Perec (1936 - 82) grouped under the category of the «infra - ordinary», that is: everything that, because of its obviousness and insignificance, remains hidden beneath the normal threshold of perception.

The story for the game was originally written by French writer Jean - Luc Cano, who happened to work on Remember Me.

Today, the rooms of the house — decorated in period furnishings — contain letters, photographs and manuscripts illustrating the lives of the famous French writer, the doomed young couple and other family members.

The great French writer and artist Jean Cocteau adored cats, summing up their power in this lovely quote: «I love cats because I love my home, and after a while they become its visible soul.»

Just think that Marcel Proust, the famous French writer, paid literary magazines to review and highlight his works.

I'm a French speaker, rather than a French writer and reader.

Laurent Guillaume is a multiple - award - winning French writer and former police officer.

Jean - Pierre Gontran de Montaigne, vicomte de Poncins, who used the nom - de-plume «Gontran De Poncins», was a French writer.

The result - a critical and popular triumph - has made him the most celebrated French writer of his generation.

Kaplan grippingly reconstructs a controversial post — World War II trial that sent a prominent French writer to a traitor's death.

André Breton was a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist.

But «Revenge» is the film we need right now from a filmmaker we need right now: French writer - director Coralie Fargeat, making her stunning feature debut.

François Truffaut is a name frequently placed among the all - time greatest filmmakers, but this French writer - director does not have a résumé as widely known or beloved as many of the others in the same conversation.

Vincent Lindon stars as a worker fighting against the closure of his factory in the latest film from French writer - director Stéphane Brizé.

Cold Water Never before released in the U.S. due to music - rights clearance issues, French writer - director Olivier Assayas» breakthrough 1994 feature about youthful rebellion can now be seen in all its bracing, emotionally raw glory.

But in «The Other Son,» French writer - director Lorraine Levy generally succeeds in creating a compelling, humanistic family drama, even if some viewers may reject the movie's final note of optimism.

«Open» is also a good word to describe the sensibility of the French writer - director Claire Denis, who, in brilliantly elliptical films like «Beau Travail» and «The Intruder,» refuses to approach the world with a rigid narrative template in hand.