Quotes by Giorgio Vasari - Page 1

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Art
Men
Long
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Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Men
Drawing
Wells
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Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Art
Drawing
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The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Beauty
Exercise
Memories
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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Men
Accomplish
Genius
Hands
Perfect
Thinking
Idea
Express
Forming
Inventions
Least
Minds
Subsequently
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Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Demand
Enthusiasm
Inspiration
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Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he esteemed during his lifetime, but his reputation endured and became even greater after his death.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Men
Mind
Names
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One of the worst things that can happen to a man is for him to work and study hard in order to benefit others and make his own name and then be prevented by sickness, or perhaps death itself, from finally completing what he has begun
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Men
Names
Order
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Paolo Uccello's wife told people that Paolo used to stay up all night in his study trying to work out the vanishing points of his perspective. When she called him to come to bed, he would say "Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!"
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Night
Wife
Work Out
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In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Beautiful
Debt
Giotto
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It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Littles
Splits
Venice
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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Beautiful
Beautiful Paintings
Children
Simple
Wilderness
Begun
Draw
Impelled
Instructed
Roughly
Sculptures
Solely
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These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Born
Diligence
Effort
Hands
Heat
Ideas
Inspiration
Instant
Rough
Strokes
Too Much
Vitality
Sometimes Never Know
Author
Idea
Leave
Express
Few
Hand
Powers
Sketches
While
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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Art
Teacher
Beautiful
Creation
Divine
Made
May
Venture
Nature God Art
Animals
Original
First
Model
Herself
Himself
Origin
Owes
Superior
Supplied
While
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When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Men
Style
Venice
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I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Art
Fall
Teaching
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