Raphael Quotes

65 quotes by 31 authors

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins. — Raphael Saadiq
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. — James Agate
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it… — Honore de Balzac
I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael]… — William Hogarth
Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog whilst out training in Monaco at… — Paula Radcliffe
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was… — Peter S. Beagle
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because… — Fernand Leger
Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole; but… — Joshua Reynolds
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that… — Umberto Eco
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. — Pablo Picasso
Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in… — Jerry Saltz
Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes… — Francesca Lia Block
I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know… — Cassandra Clare
Stay here til I come to fetch you." I no longer recognize you in the Republic of Joy," I loftily informed him. "Our diplomatic ties… — Katie MacAlister
Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it! — Karen Chance

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