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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 mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
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A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.
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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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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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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.
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Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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