Traces Remain Quotes

“It is a fairly general rule that the picturesque is based on someone else’s inconvenience”
― Charles Nicholl, Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations

“frequently found in Leonardo’s notebooks is that of ‘Salai’, which is the nickname (roughly meaning ‘Little Devil’) of his wayward young apprentice Giacomo Caprotti. He joined Leonardo’s Milanese studio in 1490, at the age of ten, and remained with him for nearly thirty years: his companion and confidant, and (on the well-informed testimony of the Milanese painter Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo) his lover.”
― Charles Nicholl, Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations

“liar, stubborn, greedy’. The account finishes with a list of clothing expenses, from which it appears that Salai had been furnished with one cloak, six shirts, three jerkins, four pairs of stockings, one lined doublet, twenty-four pairs of shoes, a cap and some laces, at a total cost of thirty-two lire. Here again one finds the notebooks full of physical presence, and of things – the aniseed gobstoppers, the Turkish leather, the purse on the bed, the little flasks of oil broken on the floor.”
― Charles Nicholl, Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations

“Mina Loy’s first impression when she met him [Arthur Cravan] was that he combined the ‘air of a Viking with the repartee of a Victorian charwoman’.”
― Charles Nicholl, Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations

“Fawcett ventured into blank spots on the map with little more than a machete, a compass and an almost divine sense of purpose... He looks like an Edwardian Indiana Jones, or some strange dystopian scoutmaster living half-wild in the woods.”
― Charles Nicholl, Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations

“Fawcett ventured into blank spots on the map with little more than a machete, a compass and an almost divine sense of purpose.”
― Charles Nicholl, Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations