A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London
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All the Parts of an Animal, must bear a suitableness and conformity to the whole: Thus where the whole Animal is thick and short, each Member in particular, must be so too; where it is tall and slender, the Members must be tall and slender, likewise; and where it is of an ordinary Make, the Parts must appear ordinary in like manner. The same thing must be understood of Trees; those formerly fell'd, being excepted out of the Number; because these, in sending forth new Cyons out of old Trunks, destroy their natural Form, and become, in effect, little better than so many vegetable Monsters.