Vallejo Quotes

#1. The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok.

Richard Corliss

#2. I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.

Edward Hirsch

#3. Then came the Boris Vallejo virtual reality mindfucks.

Robert Guffey

#4. Amazingly flaverly? Or flavored with amazin?
-Francis Vallejo

Francis Vallejo

#5. No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

Philip Levine

#6. I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

Boris Vallejo

#7. There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

Boris Vallejo

#8. There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear,
and there are desires to die, fought by two
opposing waters that have never isthmused.

Cesar Vallejo

#9. We've got to think positive thoughts.

Sharon M. Draper

#10. Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.

Cesar Vallejo

#11. Don't divide me into before and after.

Courtney Summers

#12. The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.

Cesar Vallejo

#13. The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

Andre Malraux

#14. Oh always, never to find the never of so much always.

Cesar Vallejo

#15. The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

Paul Theroux

#16. Absurdity, only you are pure.

Cesar Vallejo

#17. It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say this seriously - I hope that's based on substance and not the fact that he's African-American.

Harry Reid

#18. This afternoon it rains as never before; and I
don't feel like staying alive, heart. This afternoon is pleasant. Why shouldn't it be?
It is wearing grace and pain; it is dressed like a woman.

Cesar Vallejo

#19. You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

Boris Vallejo

#20. Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

Cesar Vallejo

#21. Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.

Cesar Vallejo

#22. Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.

Jason Evert

#23. You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Boris Vallejo

#24. And this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns.

Cesar Vallejo

#25. The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

Cesar Vallejo

#26. Well, on the day I was born God was sick, gravely.

Cesar Vallejo