Lebanon Quotes

If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.
My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.
Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.
Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.
Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.
I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.
I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.
I write what I see; I paint what I am.
Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.
My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?
Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.
Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.
We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.
The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.
A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.
As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.
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