Raphael Quotes

• Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Writing, Wrens

  1870 Society and Solitude,'Art'.

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• I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Artist, Names, Want

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• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Children, Years

  "The Drum Perspective". Book by Peter Erskine and ‎Rick Mattingly (p. 73), 1998.

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• 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 your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Italian, Years

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• In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Children, Feet

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• 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 the bleaching bones of the dead: for four hundred years the sharks followed the scurrying ships; for four hundred years America was strewn with the living and dying millions of a transplanted race; for four hundred years Ethiopia stretched forth her hands unto God.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dark, America, Race

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race”, p.103, Oxford University Press

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• Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee—and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela—Raphael’s as well. Then she put down the carafe.

  Nalini Singh

  Coffee, Ideas, Waiting

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.154, Penguin

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• You need a name.” I covered the receiver for a moment. “We need a team name.” “Hunters,” Raphael said. “Valiant Knights of the Fur,” Dali said. “Justice Group,” Jim said. “Since Justice League is taken.” “Fools.” Doolittle shook his head. “Fools,” I said into the receiver.

  Ilona Andrews

  Team, Taken, Knights

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.179, Penguin

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• If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody." Of course, Raphael might like that.

  Ilona Andrews

  Might, Courses, Ifs

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.190, Penguin

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• There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies.” (Raphael)

  Nalini Singh

  Dark, Enemy, Scream

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• A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law.” Raphael’s look was priceless. “My mother is an insane archangel.

  Nalini Singh

  Mother, Law, Insane

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.880, Penguin

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• Raphael, tell him you won’t do anything to him if I get ‘damaged.’ ” “That would be a lie, Elena. I would tear out his throat.

  Nalini Singh

  Lying, Tears, Would Be

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.211, Penguin

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• 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 it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

  Umberto Eco

  Country, Intellectual, Subway

  "Umberto Eco: 'People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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• It was one of those idiotic things that could've been resolved in a split second. Tara had no right to touch Raphael, and once she did he had every right to punch her. She should've left it at that, and now she was dead because she didn't.

  Ilona Andrews

  Splits, Should, Idiotic

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.50, Penguin

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• Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Taken, Hands

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.142, Ravenio Books

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• Tell me something, Raphael?" He was already turning, heading to the door. "What is it you'd like to know, Guild Hunter?" She hid her smile at his slip. "What do I call you? Husband? Mate? Boyfriend?" Stopping with his hand on the doorknob, he shot her an inscrutable look. "You can call me 'Master'.

  Nalini Singh

  Husband, Doors, Hands

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Archangel's Kiss”, p.7, Penguin

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• For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens) it has been used more and more economically for reasons of truth (Millet, Monet, Paul Cézanne) until it will end as the straight line for reasons of Love. This will enable the art of the future to create an international form; a form understandable to all and vital enough to the expression of a general feeling of love in a monumental way. Such is the future.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Expression, Feelings

  "Onafhankelijke bespiegelingen over de kunst" by Theo van Doesburg, De Avondpost Journal, January 23, 1916.

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• If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures... and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.

  James Branch Cabell

  Liars, Lying, Past

  "On Telling the Truth". William and Mary College Monthly, Volume VII (pp. 53-55), November 1897.

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• Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

  "Hegel: A Reinterpretation". Book by W. Kaufmann, 1966.

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• I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that giving is the way we can feel abundant. Giving is the way that we fill ourselves up.... For me the way to fill up is through service and sharing and getting myself to give more than I feel comfortable giving.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Doctors, Giving

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• 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 a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Saying Less, Years

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.230

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• I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog while out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Dog, Years, Training

  "Paula Radcliffe returns to action in May in Great Manchester Run" by Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2011.

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• 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 a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Uncles, Writing, Mean

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• 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 these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

  Fernand Leger

  Art, Progress, Faces

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• The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

  Rob Sheffield

  Rocks, Creating, Giving

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