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Leonardo Da Vinci Inspirational Quotes (330)

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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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In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .
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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
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Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
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He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
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For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
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He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
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The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.
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A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet.
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Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
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The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the sensus communis takes them and considers them.
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Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.
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Every man at three years old is half his height
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No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
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Nature alone is the master of true genius.
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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