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Paolo Veronese Quotes

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

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.

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.

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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