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• The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Half, Companion, Painter

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• The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fire, Light, Air

  "A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art".

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• The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.107, OUP Oxford

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• The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

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  Wind, Soul, Sound

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.80, eKitap Projesi

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• This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Children, Men

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• Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

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  Lying, Fire, Sophistry

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.597, Delphi Classics

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• Savage is he who saves himself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Savages

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1190, Library of Alexandria

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• The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Tree, Vines

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.495, GENERAL PRESS

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• The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Dignity, Baseness

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.210, GENERAL PRESS

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• The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mirrors, Mind, Should

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• Truth was the only daughter of Time.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Daughter, Time, Science

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

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• O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Wrinkles, Mirrors

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

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• Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Practice, Soldier

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Effort, Faces

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• I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Hopeful, Coincidence

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

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• Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Nature, Travel

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.105, OUP Oxford

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• O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beauty, Desire, Causes

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

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• Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Wish, Looks

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• A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Past, Long

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• Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Perfection, Causes, Misery

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

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• The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Past, Mind

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

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• Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Confusion

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Irma A. Richter, Thereza Wells (2008). “Notebooks”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Gold, Quests, Vain

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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• Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Guardian

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• Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Misery, Miserable, Restless

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.95, eKitap Projesi

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