“Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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