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• These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a…
• In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by…
• Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that…
• Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.
• The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the…
• Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model...
• Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.
• Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds…
• When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a…
• Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not…
• Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all…
• It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because…

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