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Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.
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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No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
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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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The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
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You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.
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The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
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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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Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.
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My body is not a tomb for animals.
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The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
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Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.
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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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Strive to preserve your health and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen Yellow for the earth Green for water Blue for air Red for fire and Black for total darkness.
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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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