Giotto di Bondone — Italian Artist born on December 29, 1267, died on January 08, 1337

Giotto di Bondone, known as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Renaissance... (wikipedia)

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.