"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."

-- Edvard Munch

#Believe Quotes #Portraits Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.119, New York Review of Books
“It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.”
“I'm a tomboy myself and have always been incredibly athletic.”
“I almost had her." Curran nodded. "I heard. And you could've taken her, too." My voice came out flat. "Rub it in, why don't you." He grinned. "No time for that now, maybe later." I closed my eyes. There wouldn't be any later. "Are you imagining me rubbing it in?" he asked.”
“I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.”
“One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.”
“The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.”
“I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended our previous work and made something better together than we could have done apart.”

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