"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model..."

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Source : Giorgio Vasari (1963). “The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects”, London : Dent ; New York : Dutton

Giorgio Vasari

#Beautiful Quotes #Art Quotes #World Quotes

“Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.”
“If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.”
“The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.”
“Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.”
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”
“I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.”
“I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.”

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“We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.”

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