Cennino Cennini (Cennino d'Andrea Cennini) Quotes

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

Cennino Cennini

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• Shadow
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• There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Picture
  • Thought
  • End

• If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Go
  • Chef

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Always
  • Lady
  • Spider

• It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Human
  • Afraid
  • Racism

• I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Design
  • Stuff
  • Dug

• I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Funny
  • YouTube
  • Vlogs

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• No adultery is bloodless.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Adultery
  • Bloodless

• When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Surround Yourself

• Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Children
  • History
  • Throne

• I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Relationship
  • Myself
  • Period

• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Name

• I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Journalism

• When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Words

• As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Long
  • Business
  • Finance

• I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Like
  • Things
  • Dissecting

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Family
  • Job
  • Father

• My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Skill

• Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Art
  • Survival
  • Activity

• And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

  

  Betty Hill
  • Knowledge
  • English
  • Walking

• Life would be very boring if friends always agreed.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Life
  • Friends

• Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

  

  Cennino Cennini
  • Real
  • Art
  • Shadow