"If you follow the course of one man……" — Cennino Cennini
"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 nourishment from it. Then you will find, if nature has granted you any imagination at all, that you will eventually acquire a style individual to yourself, and it cannot help being good; because your hand and your mind, being always accustomed to gather flowers, would ill know how to pluck thorns."
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Cennino Cennini
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13 Quotes by Cennino Cennini
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Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it…
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In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master…
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This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things…
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When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they…
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When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you…
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Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a…
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If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed…
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If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style…
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If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks…
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Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as…
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The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from…
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Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm…
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