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 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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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

  

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

  

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• I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

  

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• At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.

  

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• My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

  

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• The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

  

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• Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart.

  

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• Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.

  

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• Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

  

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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