Quotes by Malcolm de Chazal

About Malcolm de Chazal:

Malcolm de Chazal was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Malcolm de Chazal

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

Malcolm de Chazal

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Malcolm de Chazal

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Malcolm de Chazal

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

Malcolm de Chazal

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Malcolm de Chazal

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Malcolm de Chazal

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm de Chazal

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

Malcolm de Chazal

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Malcolm de Chazal

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Malcolm de Chazal

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Malcolm de Chazal

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Malcolm de Chazal

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

Malcolm de Chazal

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Malcolm de Chazal

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

Malcolm de Chazal

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Malcolm de Chazal

Author Bio

  • NameMalcolm de Chazal
  • DescriptionMauritian artist
  • BornSeptember 12, 1902
  • DiedOctober 1, 1981
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Artist