Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 19

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• A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Science, Air, Water

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

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• The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Made, Destroyed

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

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• The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Math, Path

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• Ogni nostra cognitione prÄ«cipia da sentimÄ“ti.
  All our knowledge has its origin in our preceptions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Knowledge

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• He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Math, Reality

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• Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Judging, Listening

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• The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Discovery, Consciousness

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• Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.128, OUP Oxford

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• Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Judging, Purpose, Lasts

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

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• O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Greed, Stronger

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

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• If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Giving

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.23, OUP Oxford

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• What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.207, OUP Oxford

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• The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Artist, Musician, Invisible

  Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952) p. 198

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• A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird, and this life must needs be supplied from that of man.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Airplane, Science

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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• Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Math, Movement, Causes

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

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• The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Intelligent, Mirrors

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.34, GENERAL PRESS

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• Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Culture, Causes, Praise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.264, OUP Oxford

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• A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Children, Night

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated”, p.974, eKitap Projesi

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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 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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• 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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Fire, Sophistry

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

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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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• Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Harm

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

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