"As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest."

-- Walter Keane

#War Quotes #Dirty Quotes #Hair Quotes

“After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
“I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.”
“My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.”
“Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock.”
“We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.”
“I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.”
“Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.”
“Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.”

Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Peter L. Bernstein Classics Collection: Capital Ideas, Against the Gods, The Power of Gold and Capital Ideas Evolving”, p.321, John Wiley & Sons

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