657

Aphorisms.

OF PAINTING.

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

656 * 658

VII * X

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

. . .

637

On chemical materials.

638,

639,

640,

641,

642,

643,

644,

645,

646,

647,

648,

649,

650

The relation of art and nature.

651,

652

Painting is superior to poetry.

653,

654

Painting is superior to sculpture.

655,

656

Aphorisms.

657,

658,

659

On the history of painting.

660,

661

The painter’s scope.

662