The good painter must paint
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
– 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
- 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
- The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body… for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul. – 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
- To discover the soul living in somebody’s body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it’s messy and disordered, so is the soul. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- The natural desire of good men is knowledge. – 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
- The desire to know is natural to good men. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. – Leonardo Da Vinci