Paolo Veronese Quotes

• I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

  Paolo Veronese

  Art, Consideration, Natural

  Paolo Veronese's testimony before the inquisition in Venice, as translated by Charles Yriarte, members.efn.org. July 18, 1573.

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• We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

  Paolo Veronese

  Use, Poet, Madmen

  "Venice, the Place and the People: Salve Venetia; Gleanings from Venetian History, Vol. 2". Book by Francis Marion Crawford, Macmillan, p. 32, "Report of the sitting of the Tribunal of the Inquisition on Saturday July eighteenth, 1573" transl. by Charles Yriarte, 1909.

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• I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.

  Paolo Veronese

  Taken, Consideration

  "Testimony to the Inquisition". Translation by Charles Yriarte, July 18, 1573.

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