Page 171 of 443 IX._The Practice of Painting._ - The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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That the first drawing was a simple line drawn round the shadow of a man cast by the sun on a wall.

The painter's scope.

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The painter strives and competes with nature.

		A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. George Orwell