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Leonardo Da Vinci Inspirational Quotes (330)

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As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.
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Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.
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The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
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I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.
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Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.
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Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.
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There is no result in nature without a cause understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.
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He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.
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My body is not a tomb for animals.
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
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Study the science of art and the art of science.
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.
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Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
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We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.
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Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
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Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough we must apply. Being willing is not enough we must do.
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