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May Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed of…
- You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be…
- It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or…
- The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the…
- The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by…
- 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.
- The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing…
- All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is…
- 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,…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong