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Cennino Cennini has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be…
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In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the…
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This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen,…
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If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not…
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When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter…
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When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find…
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Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I…
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If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you…
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If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either…
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If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy…
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Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the…
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The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And…
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious…
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(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,…
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Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride…
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Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence,…
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It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others.…
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a…
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
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