Raphael Quotes

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso

Child, Took, Four

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
Umberto Eco

Country, Fact, Everybody

Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
Jerry Saltz

Yourself, Trying, Living

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.
Rob Sheffield

Today, Rock, Giving

I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog whilst out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.
Paula Radcliffe

Everything, Pretty, After

Why don't you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael?
Trisha Goddard

Why, Compare, Sally

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.
Raphael Saadiq

Artist, Name, Known

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
Thomas Wentworth

Love, Mother, Forever

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