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Movement Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he…
- 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.
- We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
- Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
- To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and…
- 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,…
- The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how…
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