May 04 2008
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“ Out of the wealth of nature only a few shapes can be made to fit the artist’s inner vision, and so become recreated images; and the development of such an artist as Leonardo is not marked by the frequent discovery of new forms but by the rendering of inherent forms more finally expressive.
— Kenneth Clark, Leonardo da Vinci (1993 Penguin edition; originally published 1939), p. 79.