If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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
