"The first object of the painter is..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
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“Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.”
“Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.”
“In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.”
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“Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.”
“Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.”
“For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.”