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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
Anatomist
Architect
Astronomer
Botanist
Caricaturist
Chemist
Civil Engineer
Composer
Diplomat
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Concerned
Darkness
Propinquity
Painting
Solidity
Rest
Attributes
Position
Motion
Form
Colour
Light
Distance
Sight

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The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
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The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
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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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Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
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We ought not to desire the impossible.
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The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
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To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
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The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.
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He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
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The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
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Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience
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When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
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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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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
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Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.
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