"Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality."

-- Burton Silverman

#Personality Quotes #Portraits Quotes #Portraiture Quotes

“Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.”
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”
“I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.”
“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”

Source : Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition
“... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.”
“You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.”
“I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.”
“If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1838). “Sabbation: Honor Neale : and Other Poems”, p.168

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