Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art Quotes.

1. "How do you know, when you think blue — when you say blue — that you are talking about the same blue as anyone else? You cannot get a grip on blue. Blue is the sky, the sea, a god’s eye, a devil’s tail, a birth, a strangulation, a virgin’s cloak, a monkey’s ass. It’s a butterfly, a bird, a spicy joke, the saddest song, the brightest day. Blue is sly, slick, it slides into the room sideways, a slippery trickster. This is a story about the color blue, and like blue, there’s nothing true about it. Blue is beauty, not truth. ‘True blue’ is a ruse, a rhyme; it’s there, then it’s not. Blue is a deeply sneaky color."
- Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

2. "But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age." "I thought you liked redheads." "I do. What's your point?"
- Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

3. "That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that."
- Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

4. "I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable."
- Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

5. "'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.' Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see."
- Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

6. "...she is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil."
- Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

7. "Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then, even if your paintings are shit, you will have loved them all."
- Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

8. "The Painting is not shit,' said Lucien. 'I know,' said Henri. 'That was just part of the subterfuge. I am of royal lineage; subterfuge is one of the many talents we carry in our blood, along with guile and hemophilia."
- Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

9. "Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?"
- Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

10. "Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead.' Then she called him a name in a dead language that translated, roughly, to 'poop on a stick,' but sounded more succinct, like this: 'Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead, Poopstick."
- Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art