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If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

Leonardo da Vinci
Dumb, May, Painting
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.226, GENERAL PRESS

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

Leonardo da Vinci
Judging, Facts, Painting
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1939). “The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci”

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

Leonardo da Vinci
Grandchildren, May, Painting

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci
Perspective, Painting, Rudders

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Painting, Reason
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

Leonardo da Vinci
Philosophy, Painting, Despise
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Action, Painting
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.213, OUP Oxford

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