id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 29904 Leonardo, da Vinci Thoughts on Art and Life .txt text/plain 47687 2362 75 ancient art no painter had been able to fully express the human form, all thy life, and thou art not yet aware of the thing which more fully things by reason of the evil nature of man, who would use them for memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem [Sidenote: Painting excels all the Works of Man] Painting represents to the brain the works of nature with greater truth nature are nobler than the words which are the works of man, because thing to imitate the works of nature, which are the true images And if thou, O poet, wishest to describe the works of nature by thine He who blames painting blames nature, because the works of the painter represent the works of nature, and for this reason he who blames in [Sidenote: Painting and Nature] thy art every variety of nature's forms, and this thou canst not do ./cache/29904.txt ./txt/29904.txt