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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

Leonardo da Vinci

Writing, Bird, World

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

Leonardo da Vinci

Light, Perspective, Shadow

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

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Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1958). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.

Leonardo da Vinci

Attitude, Book, Blow

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Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

Leonardo da Vinci

Small Rooms, Dwelling, Mind

"The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Leonardo da Vinci

Years, Dying, Littles

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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 who knows not how to use his words.

Leonardo da Vinci

Moving, Men, Use

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.229, GENERAL PRESS

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Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wisdom, Math, Eternity

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After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Pain, Light

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The Medici created and destroyed me.

Leonardo da Vinci

Destroyed

Alessandro Vezzosi, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1987). “Leonardo: Art Utopia and Science”

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Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

Leonardo da Vinci

Color, Yellow, White

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Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

Leonardo da Vinci

Color, Darkness, Substance

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

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Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Airplane

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

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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Leonardo da Vinci

Tree, Doe, Delight

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.56, eKitap Projesi

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Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mother, Nature, Animal

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.60, eKitap Projesi

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The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.

Leonardo da Vinci

Light, Darkness, Withdrawal

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.57, OUP Oxford

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The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

Leonardo da Vinci

Relief, Body, Firsts

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Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

Leonardo da Vinci

Study, Results, Workers

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

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King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth.

Leonardo da Vinci

Kings, Children, Animal

"The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete".

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Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Animal, Men

Codice Atlantico 76 in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1

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... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Travel, Spring

Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.153, Profile Books

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Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mean, Science, Math

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

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Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mean, Science, Discovery

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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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 able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wall, Creativity, Clothes

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