"I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline."

-- Leon Battista Alberti

#Art Quotes #Portraiture Quotes #Faces Quotes

“I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?”
“It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.”
“The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.90, Penguin
“Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.”

Source : "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.
“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”
“Life can be absolutely phenomenal, and it should be, and it will be, when you start using the secret.”
“The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.”
“Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that â€” romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.”

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