Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.
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Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
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We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
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once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
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For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
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A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.
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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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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
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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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Wood feeds the fire which burns it.
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We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.
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The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
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Savage is he who saves himself.
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O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.
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When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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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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Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
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A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
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It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.
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The painter strives and competes with nature.
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.
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That which has no limitations, has no form.
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The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.
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The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
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Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
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