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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

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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Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?
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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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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.
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Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
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He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.
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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.
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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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Good writing comes from good talent.
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When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
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O Time! consumer of all things O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
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We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.
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Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
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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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All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause 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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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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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
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