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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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Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.
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Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
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In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .
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In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.
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Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
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If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
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The desire to know is natural to good men.
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You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.
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I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.
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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain
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And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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Lust is the cause of generation.
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There is no result in nature without a cause understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
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Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there and what you will see later is not yet.
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The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
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