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Giorgio Vasari has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by…
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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that…
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Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.
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The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the…
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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model...
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Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.
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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds…
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When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a…
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Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not…
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Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all…
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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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Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she…
— Clark Gable
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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
— Edward Weston
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I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different.
— Thom Yorke
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Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not…
— Auguste Rodin
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In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive…
— Auguste Rodin
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The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the…
— Giorgio Vasari
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The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds…
— Edward Conlon
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not…
— Walter Benjamin
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Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head.
— Nuno Oliveira
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Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes…
— Chris Bohjalian
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Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.
— Ludwig Erhard
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To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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