Da Vinci's Ghost Quotes

“Vitruvius didn’t conjure up Vitruvian Man only as an abstraction. He also wanted his readers to associate the figure directly with a specific person: the august ruler who had just begun to build a body of empire in his own perfect image, and whose ideal form was embodied in all temples. Vitruvian Man, in other words, was none other than the figure to whom Vitruvius dedicated his Ten Books: Caesar Augustus himself.”
― Toby Lester, Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image

“A good painter has two chief objects to paint: man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard. —Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1490)”
― Toby Lester, Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image