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Study the science of art and the art of science.

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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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
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It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
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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 wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
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Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
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