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.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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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.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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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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Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
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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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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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'Be nice' is my family's basic rule but one that often goes unfollowed in Hollywood. There's always a moment when you can choose between being snarky and being kind. I opt for the latter - it's much less exhausting!
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I used to think Shoji Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard Leach published about his work Hamada: Potter, Tokyo; New York: Harper & Row, 1975 and at the rear of the book were a number of wonderful little sketches, but they were not drawings like Bernard made.
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Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities
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I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.
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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.
