"The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting..."

-- Titian

#Essence Quotes #Portraiture Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.”
“I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.”

Source : "Ed Burns keeps it real, and really small". Interview with Nina Metz, articles.chicagotribune.com. January 13, 2012.
“A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if I've been caught stealing, or telling a lie; or as if I've heard other people talking about me, saying bad things about me, behind my back. There's the same flush of shame, of guilt and terror, and of cold disgust with myself. But I don't know where these feelings have come from, what I've done.”
“I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.”
“It's not the gentle part I have a problem with, it's the dull, stupid part.”
“Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.”

Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.23
“Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.”
“I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.”

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