Italian - Artist | April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
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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.
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
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Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
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The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
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