"A Painter is not admirable unless he is universal. Some may distinctly assert that those persons are under a delusion who call that painter a good master who can do nothing well but a head or a figure. Certainly this is no great achievement; after studying one single thing for a lifetime who would not have attained some perfection in it? But, since we know that painting embraces and includes in itself every object produced by nature or resulting from the fortuitous acitons of men, in short, all that eye can see, he seems to me but a poor master who can only do a figure well."
Leonardo da Vinci
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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