 | N. Durham - 1976 - 366 pagine
...like a world to discover. Michael Angelo said, "One paints, not with the hands, but with the brain." Leonardo shocked the prior of the Convent of the Graces...in invention when they are doing the least external work." The painter is a painter, because he sees what others only feel or catch a glimpse of, but do... | |
 | Will Durant - 1961 - 543 pagine
...matter so. "One paints not with the hands but with the brain," said Michelangelo; and Leonardo wrote: "The minds of men of lofty genius are most active...in invention when they are doing the least external work." Everybody knows the story told of da Vinci, that when he was painting the "Last Supper," he... | |
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One paints, not with the hands, but with the brain." Leonardo shocked the prior of the Convent of the Graces by standing for days together gazing at the "Last Supper," without touching it with the brush. He remarked of this attitude: "The minds of men... 