Cennini Cennino Quotes

#1. In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at least , that you may learn all the parts and members of the art ... drawing without intermission on holidays and work-days

Cennino Cennini

#2. Free yourself. Live your life. Stop apologizing for who you are.

Garret John LoPorto

#3. The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.

Cennino Cennini

#4. We create intellectual property on a daily basis, but all of it is not worthy of attention

Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

#5. Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.

Cennino Cennini

#6. Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones ... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

Cennino Cennini

#7. When you have practiced drawing for a while ... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

Cennino Cennini

#8. When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.

Cennino Cennini

#9. I don't think I have ever met a lady like you, Miss Marianne Daventry, and I would feel very sorry to forget anything about this evening

Julianne Donaldson

#10. You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

Juliana Hatfield

#11. In the broken places, the light shines through.

Leonard Cohen

#12. If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the other, and you will inevitably become fantastic, because each style will fatigue your mind ...

Cennino Cennini

#13. Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

Cennino Cennini

#14. His shorts hung low and his sweaty, cut to within an inch of its life, pelvic V muscle, was giving a silent but clear invitation to my tongue.

R.K. Lilley

#15. Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

#16. If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

Cennino Cennini

#17. It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.

Chrissy Moon

#18. The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

Walter Winchell

#19. Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

Peter Senge

#20. Give me another chance at this. We're so great together. I want you. I've always wanted you.

T. Torrest

#21. This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.

Cennino Cennini

#22. Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

Cennino Cennini

#23. If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

Cennino Cennini

#24. Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

Banana Yoshimoto

#25. Canceling on my big sister. I'll bust his fuckin' face.

Jamie McGuire