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- After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of…
- While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less…
- One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the…
- 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…
- Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and…
- 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…
- Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
- One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
- 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…
- You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills
- An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
- Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings…
- The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one…
- 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…
- Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole,…
- If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck;…
- Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice,…
- 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…
- The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.
- To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is…
- 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…
- We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.
- You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as…
- It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
- Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the…
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