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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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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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All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy 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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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
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There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.
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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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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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The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
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Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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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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Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
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Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.
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Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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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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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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