Quotes About Raphaelite

#1. The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

Joan Didion

#2. over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his country, theologian in verse, precursor of the modern novel, and, finally, altissimo poeta, the consummate poet.

Peter S. Hawkins

#3. The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

Christopher Wood

#4. I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

Rufus Wainwright

#5. With her wild red hair draped around her pallid visage, she could easily be mistaken for a nymph from a Pre-Raphaelite painting. But then again, those nymphs were rarely hung-over or quite such a freckled, busty little thing.

Renate Linnenkoper

#6. Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and Lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues.

John Keegan

#7. Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

Jan Marsh

#8. My life is triage.

Andrew Vachss

#9. Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

Yelawolf

#10. Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

Margaret Spellings

#11. Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

Ratan Tata

#12. What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

William Shakespeare

#13. He feeds upon her face by day and night,
And she with true kind eyes looks back on him,
Fair as the moon and joyful as the light:
Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim;
Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.

Christina Rossetti

#14. Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.

Rihanna

#15. I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

John Corbett

#16. Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. PAINT the leaves as they grow! If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world,' John Ruskin

John Ruskin