I was seized the other day in Piazza Navona, I do not know why. I am a painter. I think I know nearly all the painters in Rome ... but not all of them are good men. By a good man I mean someone who can perform well in his art, and by a good painter a man who can paint well and imitate nature well.
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"I don't know any painter who thinks Giovanni Baglione is a good painter. His Resurrection is clumsy – the worst he's done."
"I care not for the praise of men; what I do, I do for myself."
"I am a painter by nature, not by art."
"I do not wish to be judged by what others have done, but by what I myself do."
"All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature."
From his deposition in a slander trial against Giovanni Baglione.
Date: 1603
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