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“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home in organized religion. It was later, when I was able to travel farther , that the presence of holiness and mystery seemed, as far as my vision was able to see, to descend into the windows of Chartres, the stone peasant figures of Autun, the tall sheets of gold on the walls of Torcello that reflected the light of the sea; in the frescoes of Piero, of Giotto; in the shell of a church wall in Ireland still standing on a floor of sheep-cropped grass with no ceiling other than he changing sky.”

Life Religion Church Mystery Sky Travel Holiness Reverence Ireland Giotto Chartres Autun Piero Torcello

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“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.”

Beautiful Opinion Models Aspect Strive Debt Painter Finest Giotto

Book:Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists

Source: Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists

“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.”

Art Past Artist Century Painting Masters Yesterday Historian Giotto

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“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.”

Men Art Passion Existence Kings Devil Men And Women Relation Lear Giotto

Author:George Steiner

“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.”

Art Important Certain Angry Relevant Chapters Skip Art History Giotto

Author:Ali Banisadr

“But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.”

May Doe Seems Lasts Artist Honest Mines Understood Greed Investing Painful Painter Bitter Vanity Being Honest Merit My Time Confession Clown Imbecility Goya Giotto

Author:Pablo Picasso

“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.”

World Kind Art Influence Modern Century Twentieth Century Shattered Cezanne Giotto

Author:Jerry Saltz

“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.”

Thinking Doe Seems Memories Ability Wall Criticism Drawing Enthusiastic Idiocy Giotto

Author:Julio Cortazar

“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.”

Men May Remember Values Gone Study Sky He Man Return Men And Women Blue Corruption Traveller Blue Sky Tactile Room With A View Giotto

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are. Not what my influences are, but who.. As if the gutter, misunderstandings, memories, sex, dreams, and books matter less than forebears do. After all, in terms of influences, it is as much the guy who mugged me on Tenth Street, or my beloved dog who passed away much too early, as it was Giotto or Diane Arbus.”

Ifs Giving Book Matter Dream Guy Sex Term Memories Influence Streets Dog Beloved Misunderstanding Passed Away Gutters Giotto

Book:Heat waves in a swamp: the paintings of Charles Burchfield

Source: Heat waves in a swamp: the paintings of Charles Burchfield