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Truth was the only daughter of Time.
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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I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?
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When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.
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O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.
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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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Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.
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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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The painter strives and competes with nature.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
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