Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 14

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• The painter strives and competes with nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Strive, Strife, Painter

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

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• Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

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  Life, Men, Thinking

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• Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

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  Intelligent, Light, Darkness

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

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• Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

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  Being Strong, Character, Depth

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• The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

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  Memories, Intelligent, Benefits

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

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• A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

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  Men, Bed, Littles

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• Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

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  Fire, Gold, Deceit

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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• Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

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  Intelligent, Medicine, Restoration

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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• Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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  Passion, Intelligent, Intellectual

  Bradley I. Collins, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1997). “Leonardo, Psychoanalysis & Art History: A Critical Study of Psychobiographical Approaches to Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

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  Time, Memories, Past

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.84, eKitap Projesi

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• The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

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  Life, Useless Things, Acquisition

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

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• A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1203, Delphi Classics

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• Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

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  Nature, Done, Way

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

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  Funny, Humor, Enemy

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

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  Sole, Experiments, Artifice

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• Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

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  Liberty, Faces, Prison

  Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.1240, Leonardo da Vinci

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• The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

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  Order, Imperfection, Tendencies

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics

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• What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

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  Art, Men, Passing Away

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.93, Profile Books

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• Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.

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  Intelligent, Evil, Reports

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.251, GENERAL PRESS

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• When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

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  Taken, Delight, Unions

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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• 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 finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.

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  Beauty, Drawing, Together

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

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  Country, Night, Men

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.428, GENERAL PRESS

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• Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

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  Memories, Men, Virtue

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.493, GENERAL PRESS

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• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

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  Two, Judging, Mind

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics

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• In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.

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  Doubt, Gold, Causes

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