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- How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
- A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.
- All our knowledge originates in opinion.
- The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can…
- All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
- 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…
- When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only…
- King of the animals-- as thou hast described him-- I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest--because thou doest only help…
- All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image…
- The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no color can be…
- Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
- Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?
- 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…
- The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence…
- Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
- If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on…
- The motive power is the cause of all life.
- The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.
- The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
- Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
- The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all…
- To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience…
- Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.
- He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own...…
- 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…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle