Jules Achille Noël
Overview
 
Jules Achille Noël was a French maritime painter, known for his depiction of seascape
Seascape
A seascape is a photograph, painting, or other work of art which depicts the sea, in other words an example of marine art. By a backwards development, the word has also come to mean the view of the sea itself, and be applied in planning contexts to geographical locations possessing a good view of...

s and naval scenes.
Quotations

One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen|Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen (1982) ISBN 0880506687

I am the rich man's guru.

The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986) ISBN 0880502509

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women – and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.

The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)

It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable – and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.

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