All Cennino Cennini Quotes
- Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and… Art
- In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the… All
- This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under… Actually Exist
- If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some… Accustomed
- When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those… Cities
- When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the… Best
- Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for… Any
- If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get… Artist
- 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… Acquire
- If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them. Copies
- Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are… Art
- The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all… All
- Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance.… Accept