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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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Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.
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The painter strives and competes with nature.
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Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.
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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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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
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Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
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He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
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The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the sensus communis takes them and considers them.
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Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.
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Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
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The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain
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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
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He who fears dangers will not perish by them.
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Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
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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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Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
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