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Figures Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you…
- 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…
- Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.
- 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...…
- 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…
- A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter…
- Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator…
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- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. — Lance Armstrong
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers… — Charles Babbage
- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure. — Michele Bachmann
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out. — Erykah Badu
- No one can figure out your worth but you. — Pearl Bailey
- We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most… — Philip James Bailey
- A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the… — Russell Baker
- I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and… — Christian Bale