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Leonardo Da Vinci Inspirational Quotes (329)

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Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.
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Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
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The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.
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Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.
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The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen Yellow for the earth Green for water Blue for air Red for fire and Black for total darkness.
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Realize that everything connects to everything else.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
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If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.
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Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
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Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.
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We may call painting the grandchild of nature.
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Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.
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If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.
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