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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.
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We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth that its flesh is the soil.
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You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.
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The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
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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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I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.
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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
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We may call painting the grandchild of nature.
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Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there and what you will see later is not yet.
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Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.
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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
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The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.
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The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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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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Strive to preserve your health and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
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Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
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Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.
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