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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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To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
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The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
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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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Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.
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O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.
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Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet.
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We ought not to desire the impossible.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing
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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
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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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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
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