Excerpt from The Admirable Painter: A Study of Leonardo Da Vinci

I have altered this story so as to hide the painter's identity, but otherwise it is true, for if an artist is to live, he must sell his pictures, if he is to sell his pictures, he must paint what the public demands.

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