Quotes by Cennino Cennini - Page 1

If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Cracks
Mountain
Style
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When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Cities
Color
Country
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Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Art
Real
Unseen Things
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Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Art
Drawing
Sketching
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If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Men
Flower
Hands
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When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Drawing
Hands
Pain
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If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Artist
Imitation
Practice
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Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Men
Doe
Giving
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If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the other, and you will inevitably become fantastic, because each style will fatigue your mind.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Mind
Style
Today
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The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.
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Nature
Heart
Lying
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Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Art
Long
Perseverance
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In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at least , that you may learn all the parts and members of the art...drawing without intermission on holidays and work-days
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Art
Holiday
Years
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This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.
Cennino Cennini / Artist
Hands
Order
Sight
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