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Quotes from A Treatise on Painting — Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519 Italy

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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

A Treatise on Painting (1651)

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