Raphael Quotes

When one is painting one does not think.

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without.

You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services

The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.

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

Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.

The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say I get snobby about skin-care regimens and people taking care of their skin in the right way.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

We live in a divine world.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Our Redeemer ever present in the most Blessed Sacrament, extends His hands to everyone. He opens His heart and says, 'Come to Me, all of you.'

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.

We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.

No one is going to fire me now. If and when I leave, I'll be the one to make the decision

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.