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Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

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Giorgio Vasari

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, Debt, Giotto, Imitate, Same, Striving
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As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

Accept, Art, Dead, Long, Men

Art owes its origin to Nature herself. . . this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Art, Beautiful, Owes, Teacher, World

Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.

Demand, Enthusiasm, Excellent, Inspiration

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

Hands, Idea, Men, Subsequently, Thinking, Work

I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.

Art, Fall, Highest, Ruin, Situation, Teaching
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