The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
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Related Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT Don't ever reject a small when you can't take it all. TOBA BETA The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L... JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken. JOHN LEACH Ah,” Sean said, smothering a laugh. “The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I’d seen that... MAUREEN CHILD Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade. FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their... EILEEN CADDY If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art... ANSARI No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ... EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices. J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat... TIFFANY GARLAND Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison. MARY EVANS Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS The thing about Phil Stern that I like is that regardless of what the action was, he took the pictur... PAUL ARNOLD We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies! ANTHONY T.HINCKS And I know things are...screwed up between us. I know that. Even if you tell me you'd rather hump a ... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT In the end, the truth will prevail. Good and evil keep at war. Whichever wins, future will beli... TOBA BETA The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave. JENNIFER NIVEN The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me. “Is it true you almost drowned Roamer... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad. JENNIFER NIVEN You are all the colors in one, at full brightness. JENNIFER NEVIN If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him... JENNIFER NIVEN Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a... NORA SAKAVIC I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegan... JENNIFER NIVEN The judge kind of took it all in. He never imposed his beliefs as much as there were times when he c... JOSEPH ARNOLD The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY It is expression that leads to modification. It is keeping it all inside that leads to frustration. ... KAYLA RAE I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about. BUBBA SPARXXX Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of n... LUCIAN FREUD He's a wonderful person. He's a positive role model for all these kids. 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ERVING POLSTER if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he f... WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru... MATHIAS MALZIEU He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance a... JACK LONDON "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsen... F. D. MAURICE I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, see... KURT VONNEGUT First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you! RIC FLAIR And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I hel... JOSEF ALBERS It made her want to stand up next to him and fight. Fight to stay alive long enough to live out her ... 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BERTRAND RUSSELL Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all... BEN SHAPIRO The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL To all proportioned terms he must dispense
And make the sound a picture of the sense. CHRISTOPHER PITT He felt he could contribute a little bit quicker back in the secondary. He feels confident he can pi... BILL CALLAHAN If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do ... ROBIN HOBB Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that i... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for eac... BRIAN BECKWITH The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet be... HENRY JAMES I think (his father) was his reason for going after the music. When he was younger, he was going aft... HENRY TOWNSEND In his usual perverse way, because he is so good at it, he thinks little of acting. Because he has a... BOB ELLIS All portraits reveal both the the painter and the person painted. In many ways all paintings are sel... BRENT M. JONES [Ullmann, 66, still feels very close to Marianne.] Of all the things I did for Ingmar, this is the c... LIV ULLMANN Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be pa... C.S. LEWIS A person is likely to be better than others if he or she seeks all qualities of his or her character... ANUJ SOMANY He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. S... SHAYNA VARADEAUX Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 "The Bible," w... F. D. MAURICE If you see a picture of the brain with a hemorrhage in it, that is all you need to see. DR STEPHAN MAYER How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring des... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH It's all positive, it's all fun, it's like a picture postcard. It will be a great commercial for the... HARRY FRIEDMAN He was telling us all that he loved us, and we told him it was OK, he could go to all his friends, a... DONNA JOHNSON If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. TOM LEHRER Seriously", Macey snapped. "go. Kiss. A baby" "can you believe her?" Preston asked, coking his ... ALLY CARTER Never say no to sex P.C. CAST The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. LUCIAN FREUD Where do we all win? When we all make it through, and the bigger picture is all of us making it thro... JAMIE MURRAY Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could
do it so well that no one could find fau... CARDINAL NEWMAN If someone writes in and wants a picture of their grandchild taken with the governor, it happens. Al... RICH JOHNSTON All of us claim to know the president very well, but we wonder if he really knows us. But he introdu... DURGA AGRAWAL The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches fo... ARTHUR RIMBAUD He was heartbroken, I say. Heartbroken, he repeats. Of course. That's the great myth Edwa... J.P. DELANEY Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excu... THOMAS A KEMPIS The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. JENNIFER NIVEN The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Every... JENNIFER NIVEN True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter. JOHN GREEN She was so mean that she even killed her own name, and now people just pointed to her. MAGGIE STIEFVATER I is the hardest word to define. JOHN GREEN
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