Pietro Aretino Quotes about Art

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

Art, Adversity, Mind

Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Pietro Aretino

Art, Father, Book

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

Pietro Aretino

Art, War, Might

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Pietro Aretino

Art, Exercise, Practice

Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”