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Giorgio Vasari - From the Criticism category:
-on Tintoretto...
His sketches are so crude that his pencil strokes show more force than judgment and seem to have been made by chance. (Giorgio Vasari)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Criticism category:
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)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Drawing category:
Rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while too much effort and diligence sometimes sops the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. (Giorgio Vasari)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Expression category:
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)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Genius category:
-to Leonardo da Vinci...
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)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Immortality category:
-b.1511 d.1574...
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)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Inspiration category:
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)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Materials category:
-b.1511 d.1574...
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)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Nature category:
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)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Nature category:
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)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Nudes category:
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)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Painting category:
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)
Giorgio Vasari - From the Teaching category:
-b.1511 d.1574...
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)
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