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… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
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… — 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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