"With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait."

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Clement Greenberg

#Artist Quotes #Portraits Quotes #Portraiture Quotes

“Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!”
“Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.”
“One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.”
“What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.”
“Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.”
“God's grace is not given to make us feel better, but to glorify Him... Good feelings may come, or they may not, but that is not the issue. The issue is whether or not we honor God by the way we respond to our circumstances.”

Source : Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.316, NavPress
“At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.”
“The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.”

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