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Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci — Kenneth Clark

1903–1983 England

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Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

Leonardo da Vinci (1939)

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

Leonardo da Vinci (1939)

Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed — can even be enhanced — by description.

Leonardo da Vinci (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kenneth Clark (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.