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 Copy Share Image
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing. — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well. — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model... — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
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… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
One of the worst things that can happen to a man is for him to work and study hard in order to benefit others… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes,… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
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