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Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
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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Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.
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Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.
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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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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
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If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.
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The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
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If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
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Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
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To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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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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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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In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
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