Giorgio Vasari Quotes

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a pair of scissors in my hands becomes a dangerous weapon.

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

Behold the little State of Massachusetts, with more Institutions for industrial education than the entire South; let them see her textile schools, her schools of design, school of art, school of technology, manual-training institutes, trade schools, polytechnic institutes, schools of applied science and institutes of technology; let them see industrial departments in all her city high schools

We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opportunities that exist. That was the big, overarching message of 'Dirty Jobs.'

Your timing has to be very accurate. I've done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.

In the beginning I thought that metal was something scary, but I learned how thoughtful and amazing metal is. I'm so honored to be a part of it.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.

I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.