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The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, Creating, Mind

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Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge, Bears, Witness

Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.242, Lulu.com

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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 judge painting to be superior to poetry.

Leonardo da Vinci

Judging, Facts, Painting

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1939). “The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci”

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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

Truth, Intelligent, Light

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Design, Elements

Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

Leonardo da Vinci

Attitude, Men, Two

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The desire to know is natural to good men.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Good Man, Desire

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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 minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Ideas, Mind

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To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

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Sake, Reason, Enjoy

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Sensual, Firsts

"The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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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 and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Lovers

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1980). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Oxford University Press, USA

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O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Leonardo da Vinci

Time

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

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It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Leonardo da Vinci

Memories, Mind, Tails

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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My body is not a tomb for animals.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, Body, Animal Rights

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We ought not to desire the impossible.

Leonardo da Vinci

Desire, Impossible, Should

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.116, eKitap Projesi

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Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Leonardo da Vinci

Artist, Honor, Virtue

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O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.

Leonardo da Vinci

Powerful, Mind, Action

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If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

Leonardo da Vinci

Distance, Long, Water

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The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

Leonardo da Vinci

Eye, Needs, Invisible

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Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Miracle, Wish

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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Weed, Soil

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Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Iron, Acting

"The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

Leonardo da Vinci

Eye, Thorough Knowledge, Drawing

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.42, GENERAL PRESS

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There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

Leonardo da Vinci

Truth, Humble, Light

Leonardo da Vinci (2017). “Thoughts on art and life”, p.18, Youcanprint

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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Evil

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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Born: April 15, 1452
Died: May 2, 1519
Occupation: Painter
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