Leonardo Takeaways

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 Thoughts on Ken Burns' documentary

  • Was the preeminent sci-artist, autodidact
  • Work of effortless effort
  • Connector of the ancient and premodern worlds, post-medieval polymath
  • Moved on to geometry from painting. Very often artists get bored with doing one thing, and they are more interested in things that are ramifying in nature
  • Penchant for not finishing things is interesting because I like resolving things. Perhaps they were unfinished because they couldn't be resolved.
  • Fascinated by water down to the molecular level, particles of dust
  • Mind always elsewhere. Everything is a door to something else
  • Perhaps cognitive and/or emotional issues, insomnia, caffeine, other substances
  • Would not have understood why people who lived 500 years in the future were as stupid as they were. The world had just emerged from the dark ages


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