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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard,… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile,… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
