Quotes About Drapery

#1. It's fine, Mencheres. Though if you'd told me I was about to meet such a legendary vampire, I would have grabbed the nicer silk drapery to wear instead, she replied, meeting Vlad's coppery green gaze with an arched brow.

Jeaniene Frost

#2. I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery must be removed.

Thomas Eakins

#3. Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#4. A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.

John French Sloan

#5. True, I tore the drapery from the altar; but it was to dress the wounds of the country.

Victor Hugo

#6. Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

Henry Fuseli

#7. The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Austin O'Malley

#8. Heaven and earth are my inner and outer coffins. The sun, moon, and stars are my drapery, and the whole creation my funeral procession. What more do I want?

Huston Smith

#9. I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someone else or, in my line of work, they are usually dead.

Lindsey Davis

#10. I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

John Tenniel

#11. The red drapery which was being hung for Christmas spreading itself everywhere like a disease of the retina. Not

George Eliot

#12. No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

John Ruskin

#13. How rich are we that we can look on these worlds with the perspective of modern science ... that we do not have to wonder as did former men whether stars are jewels hanging from celestial drapery or peepholes in the astral skin of creation!

Guy Murchie

#14. The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#15. I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Keyshawn Johnson

#16. Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.

Shirley Chisholm

#17. No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.

St. Jerome

#18. And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

Black Thought

#19. I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.

Billy Mills

#20. It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

Margaret Atwood

#21. A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Georges Clemenceau

#22. If we stretch ourselves to open our minds, to see our shared humanity with others, we allow ourselves to see the existence of community and generosity in unexpected places.

Sharon Salzberg

#23. You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Eckhart Tolle