Paolo Veronese Quotes (1528-1588)

Poet, Painter
Paolo Veronese

About Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588) was an important Venetian Renaissance painter. His birth name was Paolo Cagliari or Paolo Caliari; he became known as "Veronese" from his birthplace in Verona.

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“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”
Paolo Veronese
“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
• Unsourced variant translation: We painters take the same liberties as poets and madmen.”
Paolo Veronese
“I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.
• Unsourced variant translation: I paint my pictures with such judgment as I have and as seems fitting.”
Paolo Veronese

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Washington Allston on Paolo Veronese

“Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject. ... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.'''”
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John Ruskin on Paolo Veronese

“There are three Venetians that are never separated in my mind — Titian, Veronese, and Tintoret.”
Paolo Veronese

About Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588) was an important Venetian Renaissance painter. His birth name was Paolo Cagliari or Paolo Caliari; he became known as "Veronese" from his birthplace in Verona.