"The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body."

-- Lucian Freud

#Self Esteem Quotes #Naked Quotes #Done Quotes

“As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.”
“Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on his brother man; Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.”

Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.304
“Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It's not the way it's supposed to be.”
“Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground.”
“Let's stop being afraid ... to seem intolerant”
“I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.”
“We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.”
“I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.”

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