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Leonardo Da Vinci Inspirational Quotes (329)

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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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Some promises and time disappoint us
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The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.
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To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.
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He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.
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Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
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The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
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Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.
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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
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A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
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Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.
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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain
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Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
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Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.
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To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
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The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.
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