{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0587.htm","path":"aor/dv/0587.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0587.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nIt seems to me to be no small charm in a painter when he gives his figures a\npleasing air, and this grace, if he have it not by nature, he may acquire by incidental study in this way: Look about you and take the best parts of many beautiful faces, of which the beauty is confirmed rather by public fame than by your own judgment; for you might be mistaken and choose faces which have some resemblance to your own. For it would seem that such resemblances often please us; and if you should be ugly, you would select faces that were not beautiful and you would then make ugly faces, as many painters do. For often a master's work resembles himself. So select beauties as I tell you, and fix them in your mind.","title":"Vol. I: IX. The Practice of Painting: 587.","type":"page"}