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The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
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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O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
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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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Realize that everything connects to everything else.
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Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
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There is no result in nature without a cause understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
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There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.
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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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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
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First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
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In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.
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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.
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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
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Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
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Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.
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