“once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Source: Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci with a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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