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Words Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.
- Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets…
- Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.
- 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…
- Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I…
- Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
- Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator…
- All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its…
- And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more…
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