Against Quote by Samuel Barnett

“Pre-Raphaelites they called themselves; not that they imitated the early Italian masters at all, but that in their work, as opposed to the facile…

— Oscar Wilde

“It is in Keats that the artistic spirit of this century first found its absolute incarnation. And these pre-Raphaelites, what were they? If you…

— Oscar Wilde

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

— Christopher Wood

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Raphael was a bouda and they viewed sex as a fun recreational activity that should be practiced vigorously and often.”

— Ilona Andrews

“I want to proceed as Raphael did and never paint another image of torture.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The transgressive quality of love is the transgressive quality of art ... From the Pre-Raphaelites till now, the avant-garde has always been characterized by…

— Rod Dubey

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest…

— Richard P. Feynman

“When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like…

— Ingo F. Walther

While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael’s Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he’d once been, the one who had loved…

— Nalini Singh

“Saddened by the misfortune of the Jews, remembering his friendship with Christians, increasingly mannered and affected as time went on for reasons to be…

— Marcel Proust

Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole;…

— Joshua Reynolds