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“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.”
— A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
“Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro. (Modern Italian)”
— Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.
“Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.”
— This relates to a huge equestrian statue that Leonardo had been commissioned to design and create, but which was not cast until over 500 years later, in 1999, when two huge statues based upon his design were finally made. (c.1497)
“O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.”
— Of the lightning in clouds.
“Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.”
— "Of Hemispheres, which are infinite; and which are divided by an infinite number of Lines, so that every Man always has one of these Lines between his Feet."
“The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.”
— Of Dice

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No public IJR answers mention Leonardo da Vinci yet. As people ask about it and share their answers, they'll appear here.

“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.”
— A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
“Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro. (Modern Italian)”
— Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.
“Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.”
— This relates to a huge equestrian statue that Leonardo had been commissioned to design and create, but which was not cast until over 500 years later, in 1999, when two huge statues based upon his design were finally made. (c.1497)
“O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.”
— Of the lightning in clouds.
“Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.”
— "Of Hemispheres, which are infinite; and which are divided by an infinite number of Lines, so that every Man always has one of these Lines between his Feet."
“The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.”
— Of Dice

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.