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Happy will be those who give ...

Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

It reflects no great honor on...

It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

Now do you not see that the e...

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

Things severed shall be unite...

Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

Do not imitate one another's ...

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

Here is a thing which the mor...

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

O mighty and once living inst...

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

The light and heat of the uni...

The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

Lust is the cause of generati...

Lust is the cause of generation
Appetite is the support of life
Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and
Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

An infinite number of men wil...

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

Wherever good fortune enters,...

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

Many will think they may reas...

Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

All the elements will be seen...

All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

The fox when it sees a flock ...

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.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

The imagination is to the eff...

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

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If you call painting dumb poe...

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

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The vivacity and brightness o...

The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

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The painter who has no doubt ...

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

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Painting embraces and contain...

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

How painting surpasses all hu...

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

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