"Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Powerful Quotes #Past Quotes #Class Quotes

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
“Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.”
“I'm sure favorite moments in movies are things that just happen accidentally when the camera is there. You have to do all the homework to get yourself into the period, the costumes, the style, the voice, the hairdo or whatever it is, but once you've done all that work, you have to kind of let it go and just be there. If you're always thinking about it, it just looks a bit over-thought.”
“When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.”
“There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty- in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub-our immediate duty is to stop it.”
“Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.”
“Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-donâ€™t you realize that?”
“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”

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