The mind of a painter
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.
– Leonardo Da Vinci
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- The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence. – Leonardo Da Vinci
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- The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. – Leonardo Da Vinci
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