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The Renaissance4 quotes
I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied. — Michelangelo · 1512The marble not yet carved can hold the form
Of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo · 1564Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1519This benign nature so provides that over all the world you find something to imitate. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1519Classical antiquity2 quotes
I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. — Horace · 23 BCAll art is but imitation of nature. — Seneca · 65Age of Enlightenment1 quote
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold:
For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage. — Alexander Pope · 1713Middle Ages1 quote
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti · 1435