Giorgio Vasari Quotes

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

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.

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 necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.