The poet ranks far below
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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- 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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- Music is the shaping of the invisible. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- 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
- God sells us all things at the price of labor. – Leonardo da Vinci
- Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. – Rene Magritte
- Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible. – Anonymous