Caravaggio quotes

Caravaggio quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.”
-- Caravaggio

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“If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.”
“No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.”
“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
“I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.”
“I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.”
“If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.64, Random House
“O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.”
“Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.”
“Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.”

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