When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
When I arrived at Roma, someone defined me as Giotto, 'The Painter,' but the nickname I prefer is the one I got… — Miralem Pjanic Copy Share Image
The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return… — E. M. Forster 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… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are. Not what my influences are, but… — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
