The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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makes his figures on one pattern so that they might all be taken for  
brothers; and this is a defect that demands stern reprehension.  
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HOW SOMETHING MAY BE LEARNT EVERYWHERE.  
Nature has beneficently provided that throughout the world you may  
find something to imitate.  
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OF THE MEANS OF ACQUIRING UNIVERSALITY.  
It is an easy matter to men to acquire universality, for all  
terrestrial animals resemble each other as to their limbs, that is  
in their muscles, sinews and bones; and they do not vary excepting  
in length or in thickness, as will be shown under Anatomy. But then  
there are aquatic animals which are of great variety; I will not try  
to convince the painter that there is any rule for them for they are  
of infinite variety, and so is the insect tribe.  
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PAINTING.  
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