“The spirit of the painter would like to be like a mirror that always assumes the color of the thing he has as object and fills itself with as many similarities as the things placed opposite him. Therefore, painter, you must acknowledge that you can only be good when you are universal master in imitating, with your art, of all the different forms that nature produces - and that you can only do so when you see those forms and store them in your memory. Therefore, when you walk in nature, you have to make sure that you judge different objects, and alternately look at one thing, then the other thing and make a collection of different things that you select and prefer over the less good ones.”

Leonardo da Vinci

Do you remember my own walks and nature studies? (see blog post 'd'Après nature' and 'The shadow in the sunlight')

This summer, this was the backdrop for my... dialogue with nature!


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