"What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach."

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Source : Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.6, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gilbert Stuart

#Peaches Quotes #Potatoes Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.”
“A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.”

Source : Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.141, Amadeus Press
“My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire.”
“To love Christ more, is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul Out in the woods and on my bed and out driving, when I am happy and busy, and when I am sad and idle, the whisper keeps going up for more love, more love, more love!”

Source : Elizabeth Prentiss (1880). “Stepping Heavenward”
“I am running because I love my country and Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are ruining it. It is time to take our country back and I am asking you to join me in this fight.”

Source : "Critics Play Whack-a-Mole With Tea Party of Nevada Candidate". Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 23, 2010.
“I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.”
“I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.”
“She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses.”

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