"I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady."

-- John Currin

#Girl Quotes #Depressing Quotes #Real Quotes

“That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.”
“Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.”
“The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.”
“Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.”
“And the Lord said: I burn down your cities - how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and you say how blessed are we. You all must be crazy to put your faith in me. That's why I love mankind.”
“I love, therefore I am vulnerable.”

Source : Alan AtKisson (1999). “Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World”, Chelsea Green Publishing Company
“With stillness comes the benediction of peaceâ€. â€œThinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.Â Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.Â This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.”
“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”

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