“I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter
“A musician is like an ear for humanity, just as a painter is like an eye for humanity. The sounds somehow exist in a different sphere, the musician listens, and brings them out for the world. There's the mystery: that someone can hear something that is essentially soundless and make it into sound.”
On his spiritual view of music.
New York Times interview (1972)
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