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All our knowledge originates in opinion.
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 would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.
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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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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
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The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
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There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.
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I love those who can smile in trouble.
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
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My body is not a tomb for animals.
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The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.
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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough we must apply. Being willing is not enough we must do.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.
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When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.
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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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It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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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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People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing
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