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We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

— Paolo Veronese Testimony to the Inquisition (1573)

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

Testimony to the Inquisition (1573)

I paint my pictures with such judgment as I have and as seems fitting.

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

Testimony to the Inquisition (1573)

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