"A single and distinct luminous body causes..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.
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“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.”
“What light through yonder window breaks?”
“It is not night when I do see your face.”
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“Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”
“I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.”
“No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.”