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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• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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
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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
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• You have to be able to sustain life. So moments are going to be lighter, but moments are also going to be heavier. I think just the understanding that life goes in a million different directions, and hopefully, if you find excitement by what these characters are experiencing and what they're living through, and you're impacted by them as human beings, then that's the sustainability of the show [This is Us].

  

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• I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

  

  Orson Welles
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• By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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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