Raffael's 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 older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

Joseph Raffael

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

Joseph Raffael

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

Joseph Raffael

#6. We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying ... I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

Julian Assange

#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. Painting is the subject of painting.

Joseph Raffael

#10. Secrets for secrets, one whisper for another. Information is very powerful. Some would die for it. Some would kill for it. How much are you willing to pay, little wingless ones?

Julie Kagawa

#11. I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

Alec Baldwin

#12. One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. 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

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

Joseph Raffael

#15. Francis shows himself as a witness more than a teacher. He is teaching because he is a witness, and being a witness, he reveals himself.

Pope Francis

#16. The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom

Adolf Hitler

#17. I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Joseph Raffael