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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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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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Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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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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Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
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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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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.
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Some promises and time disappoint us
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Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
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He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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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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Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.
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What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
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A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
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It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
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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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