Giorgio Vasari Quotes

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

Giorgio Vasari

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: July 30, 1511 - June 27, 1574

Topics

NatureBeautifulChildrenTimeOwn

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

Joe Perry

AgeThinkDoneMoviesJustSongs

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

Jeremy Jackson

CommunityBusyBetterYouWillTry

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

Jenny Zhang

MindPlaceFantasyDelusionLived

Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.

Angela Duckworth

DailyBetterLongRunMattersGet

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

Solomon Burke

LifeGrowBetterLearnYouLittle

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

Mike Lowry

WorkWorldThinkYouGoSystem

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Mohsin Hamid

GoodJourneyYourselfBrokenWriting

I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'

Lisa Papademetriou

FantasyKidLordRingsRealismLike

I'd love to go back to Broadway if there was a place for me there. I would absolutely go back; it's just a part of me.

Brooke Elliott

LoveMeBackPlaceGoJust

I'd love to see the 'CSIs' run forever.

Nina Tassler

LoveRunSeeForever

I was so involved in the regular joy of school that I didn't do any plays. On a dare, I auditioned for 'South Pacific' my junior year. I showed up at the last minute to the audition and ended up getting cast as the lead. I haven't turned back since then.

Renee Elise Goldsberry

SchoolJoyYearBackDareLead

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

Martin Filler

HistoryRevolutionLongStoneNew

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