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"The morning hour has gold in its mouth."
German proverb &bull Time and Time Management
"I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being."
Woodrow T. Wilson &bull Democracy
"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
Jules Renard &bull Laziness
"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
George Bernard Shaw &bull Morality
"It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character."
Arthur Schopenhauer &bull Character
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

George Eliot quotes

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Oscar Wilde quotes

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens quotes

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Samuel Johnson quotes

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Rainer Maria Rilke quotes

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Pablo Picasso quotes