"When you have practiced drawing for a while...……" — Cennino Cennini
"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 hand of great masters."
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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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If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for…
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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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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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