Gian Lorenzo Bernini famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.
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What we have is given by God and to teach it to others is to return it to him.
-- Gian Lorenzo Bernini -
There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while. The other... is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so as to disguise it somehow to his eye, and make it look as though it were the work of another.
-- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'
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If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
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I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
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There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
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