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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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Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.
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Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.
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Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
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We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
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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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A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
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Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
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The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
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For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
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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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Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.
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Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.
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Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.
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