"To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them."

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Source : "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Creating Quotes #Mind Quotes #Cheerful Quotes

“My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there was always that refusal to settle in one place, or one discipline or medium.”
“Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!”
“So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.”

Source : "Q&A: Odom on an Iraq Exit Strategy". Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, www.nytimes.com. May 7, 2004.
“..Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.”

Source : Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.25, Hachette UK
“The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.”
“I'd rather be broken than wasted.”
“Oh yea FORTUNATELY the girls are a lot braver then the guys, they flirt all the time.”
“Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.”

Source : "Bonobos: What we can learn from our primate cousin". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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