Raffael Quotes

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

Henry Fuseli

#2. The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed ... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

Joseph Raffael

#3. The day you were born
Heaven wept at its great loss,
Earth joyed at its gain.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

Joseph Raffael

#5. The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

Joseph Raffael

#6. I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

Joseph Raffael

#7. With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

Joseph Raffael

#8. Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

Joseph Raffael

#9. This is a little too cozy, don't you think?" I remarked.
"Your absolutely right." He patted the drivers seat, "Come on, Spook. Three's a crowd." The dog jumped up onto the seat.

Mary Lindsey

#10. Painting is the subject of painting.

Joseph Raffael

#11. Any woman who was breathing noticed Jacob Decker. Hell, it was possible he could walk through a graveyard and his very presence would call up the dead females as zombies rabid to get just an undead glimpse of him, he was that noticeable of a male.

Kristen Ashley

#12. There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

Joseph Raffael

#13. Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

Joseph Raffael

#14. Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

James A. Garfield

#15. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.

Heidi Klum

#16. I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries ...

David Stockman

#17. The chosen ones of God were those who let God pursue his interest in them, and as a result received his stamp of legitimacy.

Eugene H. Peterson

#18. I have learned from nature that all is equal ... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

Joseph Raffael