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Other Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- 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…
- 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…
- It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of 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…
- Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that…
- Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by…
- Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.
- Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
- When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in…
- 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…
- If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on…
- 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,…
- As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty…
- Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
- My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
- A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.
- There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all…
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