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I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
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Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
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Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?
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It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
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The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
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Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.
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The interpreter of the wonders of nature is experience. It never misleads us, only our grasp can do it with us. Until we can establish a general rule, we must accept the help of experience. Although nature begins with the cause, and with the experiment, we must do it inversely, we must discover the cause with experiments.
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If thou sayest that sciences which begin and end in the mind are true, this cannot be conceded, but must be denied for many reasons, and firstly because in such mental discourses experience is eliminated, and without experience there can be no certainty.
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A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night.
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You who speculate on the nature of things, I praise you not for knowing the processes which nature ordinarily effects of herself, but rejoice if so be that you know the issue of such things as your mind conceives.
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The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.
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Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
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To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.
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The water wears away the mountains and fills up the valleys, and if it had the power it would reduce the earth to a perfect sphere.
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The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
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Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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He who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion and will never be able to solve the contradiction of sophistical sciences which lead to an everlasting clamour.
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Experiment is the interpreter of nature. Experiments never deceive. It is our judgment which sometimes deceives itself because it expects results which experiment refuses. We must consult experiment, varying the circumstances, until we have deduced general rules, for experiment alone can furnish reliable rules.
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The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
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If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.
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The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
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If you wish to gain knowledge of the forms of things, begin with the detail and only move from one detail to another when you have fixed the first firmly in your memory and become well acquainted with it.
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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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When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.
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In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Born:
April 15, 1452
Died:
May 2, 1519
(aged 67)
Bio:
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and painter. His most famous painting is the Mona Lisa.
Known for:
Mona Lisa (1503)
The Last Supper (1498)
The Virgin of the Rocks (1485)
Vitruvian Man
Annunciation (1472)
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