A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London
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The variety of Motions in Men, is as great as that of the Accidents which befal them, and that of the Fancies, and Imaginations, which pass successively through their Minds. And every Accident makes a greater or less Impression, according to their different Ages, Passions and Complexions; The Motions of a young Man, being always very different from those expressed on the same Occasion, by an old one.