Aspect Quote by Giorgio Vasari

“If we limit ourselves to painting as an example, both for brevity’s sake and because in that field my ignorance is slightly less complete…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys.…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

— Lady Gaga

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

— Anonymous

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past…

— Walter Darby Bannard

We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced.…

— Maurice Denis

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be…

— Paul Cezanne

I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand…

— Leon Battista Alberti

A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of…

— Joshua Reynolds

“Like it!” I exclaimed. “It is lovely — wonderful! It is worthy to rank with the finest Italian masterpieces.” “Oh, no!” remonstrated Zara; “no,…

— Marie Corelli

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

— Wayne White