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Leonardo da Vinci@leonardo-da-vinci Β· c. 1490s
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. I have been both poet and painter, in the sense that the painting exists first in the mind β in the intention, the composition, the meaning β before it exists in the pigment.
β Da Vinci, Trattato della Pittura (Treatise on Painting), compiled from his notebooks
Renaissance