Quotes About Giotto

#1. The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God.

George Steiner

#2. He would deny this is confronted, citing evasively his affection for Dante and Giotto, but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths.

Donna Tartt

#3. Now that I think about it, it seems to me that's what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.

Julio Cortazar

#4. 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

#5. When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me.

Ali Banisadr

#6. The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

E. M. Forster

#7. It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Jerry Saltz

#8. My boy," returned my father, "you must not judge by the work, but by the work in connection with the surroundings. Could Giotto or Filippo Lippi, think you, have got a picture into the Exhibition? Would

Samuel Butler

#9. Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

John Berger

#10. To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

Walter Darby Bannard

#11. I'm always interested in something that Helen Mirren is doing. I thought her series Prime Suspect was unbelievable. I think she might be my favorite actress.

Julie Halston

#12. Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

Giotto Di Bondone

#13. The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

Giotto Di Bondone

#14. Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Bruce Lee

#15. I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

Graham Moore

#16. Chaos erupted, but Magnus's darkest imaginings had been proved wrong. When the fight was joined, there were Shadowhunters on his side, fighting with him against Shadowunters, fighting for Downworlders and the Accords of peace they had all agreed to.

Cassandra Clare

#17. Math is a hard subject.... - no silence from you and skipping this and going to the next quote, didn't you done this?

Deyth Banger

#18. Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.

Coolio

#19. The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Giotto Di Bondone

#20. It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Larry Wall

#21. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.

John Roberts

#22. Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Giotto Di Bondone

#23. She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

Oscar Wilde

#24. I write across several genres. I'm a slut for words. I can't keep it in my literary pants.

Fierce Dolan

#25. And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Aristotle.

#26. Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

Giotto Di Bondone

#27. Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

Jeff Buckley

#28. I'm a tech geek.

Henry Louis Gates

#29. We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

Nelson Mandela