Leonardo da Vinci Quote

A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night.


The literary works of Leonardo Da Vinci (ed. 1970)


A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied...

A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied...

A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied...

A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied...