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“Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.”

Ifs Should Mind Has Beens Youth Painting Stress Ruins Labour Distress Sculpture Good Faith

Author:Michelangelo

“Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.”

Mind Doe Philosophy Blood Food Youth Emotional Painting Response Passionate Delight Theology No Response

Book:The Documents in the Case

Source: The Documents in the Case

“During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings”

Youth Color Painting Fascinated Vans Goth

Author:Joseph Pisani

“Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.”

Men May Has Beens Art Ideas Use Inspiration Might Energy Left Youth Painting Periods Saint Painter Might Have Been Ripe Lively Versatile Great Service

Author:Laura Riding

“During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.”

Art Term Youth Painting Masters Lovers Taste Abuse Critics Offensive Good Taste Insipid Renowned Art Lovers

Book:The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art

Source: The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art