"I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic."

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Joaquin Sorolla

#Portraits Quotes #Portraiture Quotes #Care Quotes

“A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. "That was awesome," Seth told Kendra. "You're psychotic," Kendra replied.”
“Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere.”
“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”
“Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.”
“Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each crossroad in life because it secretly seeks to provoke a deep awakening to the unique way that we are intended to live.”
“I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.”
“There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.”

Source : Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.47, Vintage
“As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

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