Cennino Cennini (Cennino d'Andrea Cennini) Quotes

When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

Cennino Cennini

• Pain
• Hands
• Pleasure
• Drawing
• Masters
• Copying

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  Walt Disney
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• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
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• When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.

  

  Lance Loud
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• We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
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• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Time
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• Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.

  

  Eminem
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• To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Great
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• Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Good
  • Black
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• I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.

  

  Charlie Sheen
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• Molti consigli de le donne sonoMeglio improviso, ch'a pensarvi, usciti.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.

  

  Antonio Brown
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• I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
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• I've always been interested in acting - since I was a little girl.

  

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• In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

  

  Ayad Akhtar
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• I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

  

  Lynn Barber

• I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.

  

  Pete Sampras
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• Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

  

  Mark Hyman
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  • Heart
  • Learning

• If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • True
  • Pain

• The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
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• When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

  

  Cennino Cennini
  • Pain
  • Hands
  • Pleasure