Raphaelites Quotes

#1. The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

Samuel Barnett

#2. The transgressive quality of love is the transgressive quality of art ... From the Pre-Raphaelites till now, the avant-garde has always been characterized by radical views of love and sex.

Rod Dubey

#3. 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

#4. From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.

Anthony Browne

#5. No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

John Stuart Mill

#6. We are so used to thinking of our conscious selves as in charge that all the evidence documenting our lack of control - how much we depend on split-second perceptions and aesthetic judgments - is rather scary.

Shlomo Benartzi

#7. My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.

Janet Skeslien Charles

#8. The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Robin Williams

#9. I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.

Violante Placido

#10. Love Egoist
Sumire: At first, I was simply fighting the image others forced on me. It's true that it's kind of fun to curse people behind their backs, but ... I know it's not nice and it makes me feel depressed afterward.

Bisco Hatori

#11. Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.

Amit Kalantri

#12. We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

Alex Steffen

#13. We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.

Leif Erikson

#14. I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.

Shawn Johnson

#15. I still follow that model: just go hard every day, and take it one step at a time.

Ace Hood

#16. I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

Lucy Larcom

#17. You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

Stephanie Rice