Some disjoined notes and quotes from a recent book I enjoyed reading, “Leonardo: An Untraceable Life, by Stephan J. Campbell”.
“My subjects are to be dealt with by experience, rather than by words; and [experience] has been the mistress of those who wrote well.”
“Writing and likewise painting - , is not just a question of seeing things as they are. Leonardo knows that seeing means seeing something as something.”
The Tuscan proverb, “Every painter paints himself.”
“Oh writer, with what words will you write about the perfection and complete portrayal which this drawing here presents? With what words will you describe this heart here so not to fill a book? And the longer you write about details the more you will confuse the mind of the audience and you will always feel the need to have interpreters, or return to example of experience.” - Leonardo Da Vinci on the merits of visual communication