"every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself."

-- Oscar Wilde

#Artist Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that would be ignited by the thousands of nuclear explosions in cities, forests, agricultural fields, and oil and gas fields. As a result of these fires, the loading of the atmosphere with strongly light absorbing particles in the submicron size range (1 micron = 10-6 m) would increase so much that at noon solar radiation at the ground would be reduced by at least a factor of two and possibly a factor of greater than one hundred.”

Source : "The Atmosphere after a Nuclear War: Twilight at Noon". AMBIO, A Journal of the Human Environment, January 1982.
“I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time , while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time and Again”, p.84, Open Road Media
“A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.”

Source : Malcolm Gladwell (2013). “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants”, p.85, Hachette UK
“It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.”
“Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.”
“...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.”
“Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.”
“The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.”

Source : "Fictional character: Michael Corleone". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

You may also like: