“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.”
Unsourced variant translation: We painters take the same liberties as poets and madmen.
Testimony to the Inquisition, (1573)
Paolo Veronese war ein italienischer Maler. Er gilt als bedeutender Meister der Spätrenaissance.
Sein eigentlicher Name war Paolo Cagliari, auch geschrieben Paolo Caliari. Bekannt wurde er jedoch mit dem Namenszusatz „Veronese“, nach seinem Geburtsort Verona. Wikipedia

“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.”
Unsourced variant translation: We painters take the same liberties as poets and madmen.
Testimony to the Inquisition, (1573)
“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”
Testimony to the Inquisition, (1573)
Unsourced variant translation: I paint my pictures with such judgment as I have and as seems fitting.
Testimony to the Inquisition, (1573)