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As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do
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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O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
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Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.
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He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.
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To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
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We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
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A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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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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Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.
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True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.
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Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.
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Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.
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