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Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.
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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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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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.
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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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There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.
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In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .
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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
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I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?
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Nature alone is the master of true genius.
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