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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
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Experience never errs it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
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Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
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Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.
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We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
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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 discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
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He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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That which has no limitations, has no form.
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Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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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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Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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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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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
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If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.
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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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