Boris Vallejo quote: "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."

I had a discussion with the editor of the magazine and he said that he wanted to have a painting tha...
BORIS VALLEJO

I actually think that there is definitely a value in studying art at an art school. I myself went to...
BORIS VALLEJO

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics,...
BORIS VALLEJO

Learning and getting better with each portrait is what I strive for,
BORIS VALLEJO

Everyone has a photograph of themselves, but not many have a drawing or portrait done by another hum...
BORIS VALLEJO

A lot of portrait artists specialize in men, women or children,
BORIS VALLEJO

I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because...
BORIS VALLEJO

There's the possibility of someone doing it before me, but I personally didn't know it; then or now....
BORIS VALLEJO

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can...
BORIS VALLEJO

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the ro...
BORIS VALLEJO

I felt at home with them. It was a nice transition.
ELLIOT VALLEJO

Y al final dejó el horror de esta vida para entrar en el horror de la muerte.
FERNANDO VALLEJO

Anfiteatro" llaman aquí a la morgue, y no hay taxista en Medellín ni cristiano que no sepa dónde ...
FERNANDO VALLEJO

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
BORIS YELTSIN

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.
BORIS SPASSKY

We were like bishops of opposite color.
BORIS SPASSKY

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this br...
BORIS JOHNSON

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out...
BORIS YELTSIN

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
BORIS JOHNSON

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills o...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf...
BORIS PASTERNAK

It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each ...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.
BORIS SOKOLOFF

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such ...
BORIS YELTSIN

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
BORIS JOHNSON

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody...
BORIS MARSHALOV

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
BORIS YELTSIN

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
BORIS PASTERNAK

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
BORIS YELTSIN

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much...
BORIS PASTERNAK

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with ...
BORIS PASTERNAK

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be ...
BORIS PASTERNAK

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as ...
BORIS JOHNSON

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybod...
BORIS MARSHALOV

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
BORIS BECKER

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody ...
BORIS MARSHALOV

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anyth...
BORIS VIAN

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was ...
BORIS BECKER

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, yo...
BORIS JOHNSON

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAK

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
BORIS JOHNSON

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than ...
BORIS PASTERNAK

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the thing...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time,...
BORIS PASTERNAK

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down ...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts...
BORIS PASTERNAK

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't tak...
BORIS PASTERNAK

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarme...
BORIS PASTERNAK

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
BORIS PASTERNAK

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
BORIS PASTERNAK

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do the...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates li...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
BORIS PASTERNAK

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, fr...
BORIS JOHNSON

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ...
BORIS PASTERNAK

I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no ...
BORIS JOHNSON

I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I h...
BORIS JOHNSON

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in futu...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long ti...
BORIS JOHNSON

In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments ...
BORIS JOHNSON

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.
BORIS YELTSIN

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.
BORIS YELTSIN

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in ...
BORIS YELTSIN

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
BORIS PASTERNAK

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
BORIS PASTERNAK

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from...
BORIS PASTERNAK

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as mu...
BORIS BECKER

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandone...
BORIS PASTERNAK

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected offici...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected Pre...
BORIS YELTSIN

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low mo...
BORIS JOHNSON

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading...
BORIS BECKER

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and rem...
BORIS YELTSIN

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
BORIS YELTSIN

Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really app...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAK

I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I do...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He...
BORIS KODJOE

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emot...
BORIS BECKER

„В читалнята сравнявах увлеченото й четене с въодушев...
BORIS PASTERNAK

I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I reme...
BORIS JOHNSON

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading...
BORIS BECKER

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the ch...
BORIS BECKER

I had the pleasure of competing at the Olympic Games and at Wimbledon and was fortunate enough to wi...
BORIS BECKER

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
BORIS BECKER

The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls,
BORIS BECKER

I am thrilled to be the new team captain. I am sure that the pressures I've faced on centre court wi...
BORIS BECKER

The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls, ... My life was all about tennis. M...
BORIS BECKER

It was the shortest tag-team match I had in history. They jumped us during the Russian national anth...
BORIS ZHUKOV

We got up in the air, and Terry Gordy looks over and sees oil coming down the wing. The oil pressure...
BORIS ZHUKOV

I enjoy being the bad guy. It's a lot easier to get people to hate you than to love you.
BORIS ZHUKOV

Wrestling became tunnel vision for me.
BORIS ZHUKOV

I've practiced that Russian voice since I was a kid. I've always done imitations of people's voices....
BORIS ZHUKOV

The majority of people still haven't felt the results of economic reform and aren't satisfied with o...
BORIS YELTSIN

Islam will not forgive the Americans for a long time - the fact that they destroyed a country like I...
BORIS YELTSIN

In principle, most of the issues have been resolved peacefully, ... But one question, which I would ...
BORIS YELTSIN

You have no right to criticize Russia for Chechnya, ... We are obliged to put an end to the spread o...
BORIS YELTSIN

Russia is deeply upset by NATO's military action against sovereign Yugoslavia, which is nothing more...
BORIS YELTSIN

Russia has every opportunity to bring reforms to a successful finish and establish peace and order. ...
BORIS YELTSIN

is doing very little to get Russia out of the present crisis.
BORIS YELTSIN

I made the decision on the government's resignation, at the same time having in mind that (Chernomyr...
BORIS YELTSIN

I declare the resignation of the government of the Russian Federation,
BORIS YELTSIN

Despite Russia's resolute actions, NATO military action against Yugoslavia continues to escalate,
BORIS YELTSIN

We found five large hotspots that are still remaining today, and two of those are in US waters.
BORIS WORM

These areas are really of global significance. It's really important to protect them now, because 20...
BORIS WORM

Where you used to put out a fishing line 50 years ago and catch 10 species, now you catch five speci...
BORIS WORM

In order to do this you really need a historical base line to know what you are working towards.
BORIS WORM

It's been a slow-motion disaster. It's silent and invisible. People don't imagine this. It hasn't ca...
BORIS WORM

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant...
BORIS VIAN

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.
BORIS VIAN

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
BORIS VIAN

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans ...
BORIS VIAN

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and El...
BORIS VIAN

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything ...
BORIS VIAN

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes...
BORIS VIAN

a bleeding wound of southern Europe.
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Thos...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

The rage on the streets is not the answer,
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

If NATO troops stayed on, this would only give us a sense of false security ... and create another B...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

aimed at achieving a political settlement as soon as possible.
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international c...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI

a pro-European candidate... for new political values.
BORIS TADIC

We are working very hard on that issue,
BORIS TADIC

There's this legal technicality,
BORIS TADIC

Serbia is a democratic country today,
BORIS TADIC

I trust police and military reports that I am getting today: that Mladic is somewhere between Bosnia...
BORIS TADIC

To say that all is as it was before would be dangerous. Serbia after October the 5th is different, b...
BORIS TADIC

Of course, we can decide not to cooperate with The Hague tribunal but we have to be aware that the c...
BORIS TADIC

A disintegration of Serbia-Montenegro could cause a chain reaction and destabilize a wider region,
BORIS TADIC

Serbia does not want at all to arrange political relations among ethnic Albanians in Kosovo,
BORIS TADIC

I am absolutely against destabilization of the Balkan peninsula,
BORIS TADIC

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a K...
BORIS SPASSKY

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good...
BORIS SPASSKY

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.
BORIS SPASSKY

I don't want ever to be champion again.
BORIS SPASSKY

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.
BORIS SPASSKY

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.
BORIS SPASSKY

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly...
BORIS SPASSKY

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and...
BORIS SPASSKY

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of th...
BORIS SPASSKY

The markets are reacting to the polls, but investors will sell off more aggressively if Flores doesn...
BORIS SEGURA

The dissenting votes are evidence that policy makers' outlook on inflation is improving. Why not sta...
BORIS SEGURA

They were obviously not comfortable with the orders they had.
BORIS SEGURA

The new public credit team is much more realistic regarding market conditions for Argentina. This pr...
BORIS SEGURA

The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG

As oil prices go below $60 per barrel, it should translate to yen strength. I think we are far close...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG

Euro-dollar dropped about 40 points in the aftermath of the release but recovered some of the loss, ...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG

The ECB is trying to walk a very fine line between its mandate to control the budding inflationary p...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG

The euro has been the victim of an ever widening interest-rate differential to the dollar, a dynamic...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG

The news augurs well for the Japanese economy as confidence is now spreading through the full spectr...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG

The yen remains the preferred funding currency for carry trades. The Swiss franc was the alternative...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG

The fact that it's actually shrinking gives the dollar a short-term boost.
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG

Katrina's effect was far less destructive than initially feared. The true extent of the damage, howe...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG

I wanted to send the car back to North Carolina intact and we did that, ... I finished 30th, which i...
BORIS SAID

I'm going to give myself a B-minus. In practice and qualifying I thought I made a lot of progress. B...
BORIS SAID

I had great restarts all day, but Tony got me and I got bogged down.
BORIS SAID

It would have been nice to finish second to Tony Stewart . He's the best right now. What he's doing ...
BORIS SAID

Each time I get into one of these cars I feel more at ease and the tension drops a few notches.
BORIS SAID

Each time I get into one of these cars I feel more at ease and the tension drops a few notches,
BORIS SAID

In our little group, the good guys are really good. We want to win. I'm going to bring my best. My n...
BORIS SAID

Lap times are a little slower. But it seems a lot faster with the curbs cut down. You'll still be ab...
BORIS SAID

I like the races when we practice and qualify on the same day. I'm not only in a routine, but more i...
BORIS SAID

Qualifying is first and foremost, ... Once we can achieve that initial goal, the next objective for ...
BORIS SAID

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his or...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts...
BORIS PASTERNAK

Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May ...
BORIS PASTERNAK

You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than ...
BORIS PASTERNAK

If you don't behave, you'll also end up in the slammer.
BORIS NEMTSOV

It is all too difficult to carry out any reforms ... in the conditions of such an ugly market, where...
BORIS NEMTSOV

Those foreign cars that are being used now will be sold at open auctions and replaced by domestic-ma...
BORIS NEMTSOV

For the first time in the history of the defense ministry, there will be open bidding for contracts ...
BORIS NEMTSOV

If you don't behave, you'll also end up in the slammer,
BORIS NEMTSOV

This is simply quite stupid ... The American electoral system needs modernizing. An American comedy!
BORIS NEMTSOV

In Russia there is great interethnic hatred, class hatred - I mean hatred for wealthy people - that ...
BORIS NEMTSOV

Similar, baseless accusations concerning Russia's intelligence have been made more than once.
BORIS LABUSOV

This kind of unsubstantiated allegation against Russia's intelligence service has been voiced repeat...
BORIS LABUSOV

Such unfounded accusations have been voiced regularly. We do not see fit to comment on these insinua...
BORIS LABUSOV

It is completely absurd. We are tired of denying these assertions.
BORIS LABUSOV

It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror...
BORIS KARLOFF

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
BORIS JOHNSON

But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language ...
BORIS JOHNSON

The Tory Party - the funkiest, most jiving Party on Earth!
BORIS JOHNSON

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, op...
BORIS JOHNSON

It's very, very good news for Cameron. He's going to storm through, I've absolutely no doubt he's go...
BORIS JOHNSON

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reinca...
BORIS JOHNSON

Ken doesn't think he's got anything to say sorry for and if that's really his feeling, then I think ...
BORIS JOHNSON

Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.
BORIS JOHNSON

Pyramid of piffle [no, not his views on Liverpool but a report Petronella Wyatt was his mistress]
BORIS JOHNSON

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it...
BORIS JOHNSON

The ground will burn under their feet.
BORIS GRYZLOV

world art treasures cannot be hostages of legal quarrels.
BORIS GRYZLOV

Masterpieces of world art cannot be hostages in legal disputes. Just look at the list of the paintin...
BORIS GRYZLOV

These paintings are kept in Russia, in Moscow, but they are the achievements of all citizens of the ...
BORIS GRYZLOV

We witnessed such an incident in Moscow in 2002, when soccer fans set ablaze 80 cars in the city cen...
BORIS GRYZLOV

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.

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Boris Vallejo

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.

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