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"It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas."
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Source: Quoted in Irma A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).
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