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Often appears with: the passions and the emotions · reason and the intellect · rational experience in art · poetry and the poets · imitation of nature · art reflecting inner mental state
Usually: reflection (1) · the stranger's arrival (1) · curiosity (1) · wonder (1)
It explains Leonardo’s philosophy of art and life: he values scientific, rational experience grounded in nature’s imitation, while using art to express inner character and thought.
at the cost of our toil.... As a day well spent makes sleep {xiii} seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long." Leonardo's views of aesthetic are all important in his philosophy of life and art. The worker's thoughts on his craft are always of interest. They are doubly so when there is in them no trace of literary self-consciousness to blemish their expression. He recor…