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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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Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
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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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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.
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The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
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The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough we must apply. Being willing is not enough we must do.
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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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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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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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
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It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.
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Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
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Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.
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Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.
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Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.
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The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.
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Good writing comes from good talent.
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He who fears dangers will not perish by them.
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