Cennino Cennini (Cennino d'Andrea Cennini) Quotes
In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at least , that you may learn all the parts and members of the art...drawing without intermission on holidays and work-days
Quotes to Explore
-
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
-
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
-
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
-
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
-
My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
-
I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.
-
Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,Such as fating us to spend the first part of our livesbeing embarrassed by our parents and the last partbeing embarrassed by our childer.
-
I can feel your heartbeat, Where I lay my head ‘Cause you’ve got me Yeah you’ve got me
-
A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.
-
I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them.
-
Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.
-
I've always enjoyed fashion and dressing up for things, whether it's high fashion or play fashion.
-
I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.
-
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
-
When I fought Nick Thompson, I wasn't experienced enough. That was the first person that put me in a real fight. Before Nick, nobody had put me in a fight where I had to struggle.
-
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
-
It's no disgrace to play against the world's champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.
-
I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.
-
I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.
-
I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.
-
And you think you know that they'll always be there. You never had the time. I want you to be fine.
-
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
-
We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience. Everyone fears abandonment, loss and betrayal; anger is as toxic within a Jewish body as it is within a Christian, Muslim or Hindu body; and we are all drawn to love. When it comes to health of our spirits and our bodies, we have no difference.
-
In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at least , that you may learn all the parts and members of the art...drawing without intermission on holidays and work-days
