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Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills.

Leonardo da Vinci

Dog, Horse, Children

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Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.

Leonardo da Vinci

Simple, Men, Thinking

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.341, Delphi Classics

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The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Leonardo da Vinci

Blood, Water, Mountain

"The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mirrors, Hands, Judging

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

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I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

Leonardo da Vinci

Color, Ideas, Design

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Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

Leonardo da Vinci

Character, Expression, Giving

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All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.

Leonardo da Vinci

Sky, Rushing, Together

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated”, p.989, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Travel, Eye

"Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci".

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

Leonardo da Vinci

Air, Circles, Water

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Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

Leonardo da Vinci

Memories, Men, Deeds

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

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One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mastery, Environment

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An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Numbers, Justice

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

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The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Leonardo da Vinci

Flower, Men, Garden

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All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.

Leonardo da Vinci

Past, Perception, May

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The motive power is the cause of all life.

Leonardo da Vinci

Intelligent, Causes, Motive

Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1138, Library of Alexandria

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Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Travel, Sea

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.21, OUP Oxford

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To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

Leonardo da Vinci

Good Person, Speak, Ill

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Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.

Leonardo da Vinci

Sleep, Eye, Body

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Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

Leonardo da Vinci

Intelligent, Men, Hemisphere

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.344, GENERAL PRESS

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Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

Leonardo da Vinci

Philosophy, Knowing, Ends

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I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

Leonardo da Vinci

Air, Aviation, Predictions

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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

Leonardo da Vinci

Race, Creative, Experience

Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.248, Lulu.com

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As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, Vanity, Vices

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated”, p.939, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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Lust is the cause of generation
Appetite is the support of life
Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and
Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

Leonardo da Vinci

Fear, Support, Lust

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.263, OUP Oxford

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If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Travel, Wind

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.135, OUP Oxford

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