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Leonardo da Vinci
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

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