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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #2
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “fr shawty”
    Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life

  • #3
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “O Time, consumer of all things! O envious age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years little by little, in slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror and saw the withered wrinkles which old age had made in her face wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.”
    Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

  • #4
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Mathematics, such as appertain to painting, are necessary to the painter, also the absence of companions who are alien to his studies: his brain must be versatile and susceptible to the variety of objects which it encounters, and free from distracting cares.”
    Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life

  • #5
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #6
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Obstacles cannot crush me...he who is fixed to a star does not change his mind”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #7
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Everything in some way connects to everything else".

    Leonardo Da Vinci”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #8
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #9
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death”
    Leonardo Da Vinci

  • #10
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I know that there are numberless people who would, to satisfy a whim, destroy God and all the universe.”
    Leonardo da Vinci, The Radix

  • #11
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Whatever— the soup is getting cold.

    [Last sentence of a mathematical theorem in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, 1518]”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #12
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #13
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “My body is not a tomb for other creatures.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #14
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”
    Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life

  • #15
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Nuestra vida está hecha de la muerte de otros”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #16
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #17
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “No human investigation can be called real knowledge if it does not pass through mathematical demonstrations; and if you say that the kinds of knowledge that begin and end in the mind have any value as truth, this cannot be conceded, but rather must be denied for many reasons, and first of all because in such mental discussions there is no experimentation, without which nothing provides certainty of itself.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #18
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I believe man will fly and I base this assumption on the fact that God has blessed us with minds that are capable of imagining it. Anything that can be dreamt of will eventually be built. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.
    (As quoted by a fictional Leonardo in DaVinci Demons)”
    Leonardo da vinci

  • #19
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “So vile a thing is a lie that even if it spoke fairly of God it would take away somewhat from His divinity; and so excellent a thing is truth that if it praises the humblest things they are exalted.”
    Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life

  • #20
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.”
    Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life

  • #21
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “He who does not value life does not deserve it.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #22
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.”
    Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life

  • #23
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.”
    Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

  • #24
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”
    Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

  • #25
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #26
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #27
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”
    Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life

  • #28
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #29
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “To become an artist you have to be curious.”
    Leonardo Da Vinci

  • #30
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.”
    Leonardo da Vinci



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