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First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that 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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And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.
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Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
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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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It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
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When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.
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Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.
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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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As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.
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To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
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