May 04 2008
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“ There was something abnormal about Leonardo’s appetite for information, which led him to gobble up every fact with almost equal relish. Perhaps the chief reason for the lack of order in Leonardo’s manuscripts is the one he himself gives…He could not arrange his notes for lack of time. It is a miracle that any man should have observed, read, and written down so much in a single lifetime; and we should not complain that in the urgency of his appetite for facts he did not always stop to consider their order or their ultimate purpose.
— Kenneth Clark, Leonardo Da Vinci (1993 Penguin Edition, originally published 1939), p. 112.