hal mc whinnie on tue 10 oct 00
"It was with an intense delighted agony that Leonardo prepared his pictures,
drawing design on design in which the final intention grows as the flower
from the bud, emerges as the Psyche from the cocoon. He builds it greatly
within the pyramidal lines he accepts as the best framework for his
imaginative play, like all great artists, like god himself, powerful to
charm infinity into a strict symbol, desiring a certain straitness of
bondage that the dram of light, colour, music, may come not forth shapeless
and vague."
"To realize most the range and power of Leonardo's art, it is necessary to
enter into the world of his drawings, for he is distinctly the greatest of
European draughtsman. Botticelli's is a delighting line, it sings like
music; but Leonardo's is fire-music."
Rachel Taylor
Page 522
1928
Jamie Endahl on tue 10 oct 00
whoa... I love this...
I guess that's why the book's called The Agony & the Ecstacy.
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"It was with an intense delighted agony that Leonardo prepared his pictures,
drawing design on design in which the final intention grows as the flower
from the bud, emerges as the Psyche from the cocoon. He builds it greatly
within the pyramidal lines he accepts as the best framework for his
imaginative play, like all great artists, like god himself, powerful to
charm infinity into a strict symbol, desiring a certain straitness of
bondage that the dram of light, colour, music, may come not forth shapeless
and vague."
"To realize most the range and power of Leonardo's art, it is necessary to
enter into the world of his drawings, for he is distinctly the greatest of
European draughtsman. Botticelli's is a delighting line, it sings like
music; but Leonardo's is fire-music."
Rachel Taylor
Page 522
1928
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