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• It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

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  Able, Painter, Competence

  Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art”, p.55, 谷月社

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• In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Loss, Age, Youth

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

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  Art, Sea, Arriving

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: "Translated from the Original Italian"”, p.216, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

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  Blame, Conclusion, Courses

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.28, GENERAL PRESS

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• We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Grandchildren, May, Painting

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• Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Order, Law

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• All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

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  Bystanders, Events, Gestures

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• Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Variation

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

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  Inspirational, Life, Distance

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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• Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Medicine, Restoration, Elements

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

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• Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Perspective, Painting, Rudders

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• Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Science, Oysters, Sea

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Carlo Pedretti, Martin Kemp, Owen Gingerich, American Museum of Natural History (1996). “Codex Leicester: a masterpiece of science”

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• The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

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  Eye, Intelligent, Objects

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.349, Delphi Classics

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• The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

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  Intelligent, Surface, One Thing

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.352, Delphi Classics

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• I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by.

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  Beautiful, Strong, Together

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• Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.

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  Light, Shadow, Would Be

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

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• Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

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  Wind, Voice, Differences

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• How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Painting, Reason

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

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• Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

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  Art, Son, Style

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

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• If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mistake, May, Firsts

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• It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

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  Dark, Imagination, Lines

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

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• Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

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  Fall, Looks, Figures

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.261, GENERAL PRESS

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• The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Bird, Looks, Mouths

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.459, GENERAL PRESS

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• Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Tongue, Should

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.484, GENERAL PRESS

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• Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Horse, Perspective, Ships

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

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