Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard… — Leonardo da Vinci
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
In the original Italian
A pittura è una poesìa che si vede , e non si sente , e la poesìa è una pittura che si sente , e non si vede .
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Da Vinci, Leonardo. A Treatise on Painting, translated by John Francis Rigaud. Dover Publications, 2005.
Original citation
Da Vinci, Leonard. Tratto della pittura [A Treatise on Painting]. Raffaelo du Fresne, 1651.
