Giorgio Vasari famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Inspiration #Hands #Ideas
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Beautiful #Debt #Giotto
It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Venice #Doe #Splits
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Inspiration #Demand #Enthusiasm
Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he esteemed during his lifetime, but his reputation endured and became even greater after his death.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Men #Names #Mind
When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Men #Venice #Style
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Men #Thinking #Hands
Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Men #Drawing #Wells
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model...
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Beautiful #Art #World
The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Beauty #Memories #Exercise
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Art #Drawing
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Beautiful #Teacher #Art
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Beautiful #Children #Simple
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.
-- Giorgio Vasari

#Art #Fall #Teaching

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