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The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

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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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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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 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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Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
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Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.
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That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
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For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
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To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
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If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
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