I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog while out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting. " The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.
Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he touched. . . it was as if he had a direct line to the hottest, most feminine part of her. A single stroke and she was embarrassingly damp. But she refused to pull away, refused to give in. " (page 33 , Gollancz edition)
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny. " "That's why no one's laughing. " -Raphael & Jace, pg. 272-
You need a name. ” I covered the receiver for a moment. “We need a team name. ” “Hunters,” Raphael said. “Valiant Knights of the Fur,” Dali said. “Justice Group,” Jim said. “Since Justice League is taken. ” “Fools. ” Doolittle shook his head. “Fools,” I said into the receiver.
Raphael, tell him you won’t do anything to him if I get ‘damaged. ’ ” “That would be a lie, Elena. I would tear out his throat.
If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody. " Of course, Raphael might like that.
Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!
Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you. -Raphael
It was one of those idiotic things that could've been resolved in a split second. Tara had no right to touch Raphael, and once she did he had every right to punch her. She should've left it at that, and now she was dead because she didn't.
Jace whistled. "Raphael is really having an exceptionally bad night. " -Jace, pg. 283-
How long have you been with Raphael?” “You ask a lot of questions for a dead woman. ” “What can I say? I prefer to die well-informed. ” -Venom and Elena
There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies. ” (Raphael)
I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.
