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came into being, not all at once but like the build-up of smoke in a room, one wisp at a time.
Listen instead to my history. My adventures are worth hearing. I have lived many lifetimes and been loved by emperors, kings and thieves. I have survived kidnap and assault. Revolution and two world wars. But this is also a love story. And the story
in the end we made one another immortal, he and I.
‘A painting is visual poetry.’
‘You, my Lisa, are different from other women. You are the Universal Woman. Eternal like the earth. I’m painting every woman and the earth herself at once,
Pain is our memory of love.’
‘The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark,’
In order to become an icon, I only had to disappear.
Art is the eternal part of us. Leonardo da Vinci is dead, but as I look at his landscape rendered in exquisite beauty all around me, I catch a glimpse of a piece of his soul, his very essence. Leonardo will always be here on this earth, so long as I am.
