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Titian Quotes

1480–1576 Italy

Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (c. 1488-90 – 27 August 1576), better known as Titian, was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Cadore territory, near Belluno (Veneto), in Italy, and died in Venice.

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It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.

The Quotable Artist (2002)

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

A Dictionary of Art and Artists (1959)

He once remarked, as Pietro Aretino reported to Vasari, "that he never saw a maiden without discovering in her features a touch of sensuality" ("lascivia")

Titian (1904)

[I wish]to engrave and distribute [the prints] for the benefit and knowledge and use of painters and sculptors and other knowledge-able persons.

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