Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 18

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• Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Reading, Giving, Ears

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

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• In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Eye, Blue

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• The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Bones, Fortune

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

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• The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Loss, Drawing

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Eye, Color

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

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• Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Causes, Produce

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

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• Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Desire, World

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.447, GENERAL PRESS

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• Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Past, May, Observation

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.440, GENERAL PRESS

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• When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Wall, Rocks

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• I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Thinking

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• To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Philosophy, Mean

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• All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Pyramids, Causes

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.44, GENERAL PRESS

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• Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Choices, Understanding

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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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wind, Soul, Sound

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

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• He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Drawing, People

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1938). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Vision

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.112, OUP Oxford

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• The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wise, Evil, Doe

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.96, eKitap Projesi

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• Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Proportion, Grows

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1956). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.447, Prabhat Prakashan

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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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• 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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• 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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• A life well used procures a happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Used, Happy Death, Wells

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• The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Body, Boundaries

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.353, 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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• It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Practice, Honor

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