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He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
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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You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.
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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
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The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.
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A long life is a life well spent.
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
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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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If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
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I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
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Savage is he who saves himself.
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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
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It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
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Every man at three years old is half his height
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Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.
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