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Things Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things…
- 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…
- The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and…
- A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
- 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…
- Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
- The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
- I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles…
- I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
- The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
- 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…
- The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.
- The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the…
- 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…
- Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the…
- In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere…
- There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in…
- It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and…
- Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
- The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
- The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
- God sells us all things at the price of labor.
- The knowledge of all things is possible
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle