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Eye Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the…
- There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
- 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…
- 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.
- The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of…
- Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
- 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…
- Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The…
- 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.
- The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.
- The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything…
- 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…
- The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when…
- The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.
- 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...…
- There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second,…
- Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do…
- 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…
- In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere…
- Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will…
- For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will…
- Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila