A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 25

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A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud

That a Painter should take Pleasure in the Opinion of every body

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3995924A Treatise on Painting — That a Painter should take Pleasure in the Opinion of every bodyJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. XXV.—That a Painter should take Pleasure in the Opinion of every body.

A painter ought not certainly to refuse listening to the opinion of any one; for we know that, although a man be not a painter, he may have just notions of the forms of men; whether a man has a hump on his back, a thick leg, or a large hand; whether he be lame, or have any other defect. Now, if we know that men are able to judge of the works of Nature, should we not think them more able to detect our errors?

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