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Body Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in…
- The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
- Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never…
- My body is not a tomb for animals.
- To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
- A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
- Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
- Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets…
- The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
- We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
- 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…
- A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of…
- I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies…
- Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
- Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.
- The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
- The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
- 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…
- If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to…
- 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…
- The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours…
- The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
- To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.
- The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
- I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and…
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine