quotes about Giotto

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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

Source : Giorgio Vasari, George Bull (1978). “Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists”, Viking Pr

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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

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“Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.”
“There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.”
“I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.”

Source : "Mark Gatiss: My family values". Interview with Alistair Duncan, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2010.
“In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.”

Source : "Memories of Duckburg". Zeit Magazin, Hamburg, 1989.
“Life without knowledge is death in disguise.”

Source : Song: K.o.s
“As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Zebra-Striped Hearse”, p.9, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.”
“Dream Song: The heavens Go with me.”
“The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.”
“Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.”