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Some promises and time disappoint us
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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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
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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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Lust is the cause of generation.
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
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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 fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
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Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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Learn diligence before speedy execution.
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Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
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Poor is the man who desires a lot
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.
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Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.
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