A Quote by Marcel Marceau

With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.

Marcel Marceau

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Alter Alter Ego Art Developed Ego Ephemeral Life Lion Musician Only Revealing Soldier Street Time Tragedy

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Marcel Marceau
French - Actor
March 22, 1923 - September 22, 2007

Bip is the romantic and burlesque hero for our time. Bip is a modern-day Don Quixote.

Marcel Marceau

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Dorothea Lange

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

Dimitris Mitropoulos

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

Cardi B

Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

Oscar Wilde

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

George Bernard Shaw

If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.

Darrell Waltrip

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

Karen Salmansohn

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

Les Dawson

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

George Bernard Shaw

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

T. J. Miller

Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street art via galleries.

Ben Eine

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Oscar Wilde

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.