"When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg."

-- Pablo Picasso

#Eggs Quotes #Portraiture Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.”
“Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.”
“I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.”
“[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is the hidden placeholder in the Barthesian equation.”
“Man, you learn so much just like with anything else. If you do something long enough, you learn. You make mistakes. You run into roadblocks and barriers. You overcome obstacles. You fall down. I mean you have to fall down to learn to stand up.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.”
“I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.”
“The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner forces loose, and, set us free; but when they are dead they keep us locked in inner conflict.”

Source : Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.10, New York : Oxford University Press

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