GREAT EVERYONE --- I'm ROLAND - a PAINTER ARTIST -- right now paint what I want, have my own style - used to paint Commissioned Portraits. I LOVE PEOPLE. LOVE LIFE. And, yesss - LIFE is a Banquet, and, too sad that too many are starving themselves. I tend to paint The GOOD LIFE - those Happy Moments, and yes, that's what Life is ALL about. Have done very well with my Painting Art and also photography. My Background is GERMANY - a Theatre/Film family. Am German/Russian. Am a BUSINESS Person - similar to how Artist Andy Warhol approached things - Produce Produce, Promote Promote. Difference between Andy and I is - he copied, but I'm about DISCOVERY - finding New Ways to always Express. All in all, the type of people I'm attracted to - well - it's the MIND, the Brain which starts Anything, yes, ANYTHING. Am toying with Real Estate - but, main fact is that I - PAINT PAINTINGS. For Leisure - I like to DISCOVER, and yes LEARN. BEAUTY - all things Beautiful attract me. But also, per a person - Beauty does begin on the Inside, and manifests Outward. Ingrid Bergman, the actress made an excellent statement in a Film - " be Yourself - be an Original, the World Worships the Original - because Copies create the Mediocre .. " And, per that I say - yesss - just Dare to be You, whomever YOU are. And, ha - what is Money - it's a Value placed - but, "Money" is about the easist fact to aquire. Be LOGIC, have a sense of WHO YOU ARE, and WHAT do you really WANT - what REALLY makes you feel happy. All in all - as a partner -- I like an "equal" in a sense - and yes, be Sensible - have GOALS and be DOING things. LAZYNESS, hm, that fact I can never understand. And, this whole "laid back" bit - "down to earth" - sounds like people getting ready to be buried.