"I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver."

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Beauty Quotes #Flesh Quotes #Tiny Quotes

“My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.”
“The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.”
“The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.”

Source : "To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows." by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2006.
“To me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift.”
“California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.”
“When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference.”
“When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.”
“When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.”

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