Giorgio Vasari

“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.”

“Drawing is the father of our three arts: architecture, sculpture, and painting.”

“Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.”

“Patience is a virtue that is not in everyone's possession.”

“The arts, like the human body, are born, grow, become old, and die.”

“The end of all the arts is to imitate nature.”

“He who has not seen the Sistine Chapel has no grasp of what one man can do.”

“Many men are poets in their hearts, but only a few are able to properly dress their thoughts in verse.”

“In our time, art has been reborn to a new life.”

“Let us confess that the first of all the arts is architecture, which creates and adorns the edifices where men come together for their needs.”