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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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And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
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For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
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Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
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O Time! consumer of all things O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
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Vows begin when hope dies.
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Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.
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People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing
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Lust is the cause of generation.
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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same
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Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
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An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it while it never was theirs nor in their power and human justice will not prevent it.
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The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.
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The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.
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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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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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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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Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
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All our knowledge originates in opinion.
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