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Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

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Practice, Drawing, Perspective

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.344, Delphi Classics

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If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

Leonardo da Vinci

Patience, Hurt, Clothes

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The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

Leonardo da Vinci

Imagination, Shadow, Body

Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.89, Lulu.com

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Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

Leonardo da Vinci

Distance, Eye, Mean

Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the grandchild. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Children, Abundance

Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art”, p.205, 谷月社

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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Law, Instruments, Abandon

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

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The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

Leonardo da Vinci

Distance, Rays, Colour

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics

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The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.

Leonardo da Vinci

Eye, Numbers, Atmosphere

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing; and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.

Leonardo da Vinci

Hands, Space, Body

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O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mother, Art, Nature

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

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A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Travel, Clouds

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.77, GENERAL PRESS

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I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Hands, Perfect

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Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

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The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

Leonardo da Vinci

Doubt, Littles, Ability

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The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

Leonardo da Vinci

Color, Light, Landscape

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When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

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Nature, Travel, Differences

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

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Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

Leonardo da Vinci

Death, Memories, Loss

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.81, eKitap Projesi

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When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Love Is, Towns

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.446, GENERAL PRESS

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I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

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Blame, Pupils, Masters

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.118, eKitap Projesi

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If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it

Leonardo da Vinci

White, Space, Degrees

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.200, GENERAL PRESS

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No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Children, Nephew

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To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Travel, Air

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

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Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

Leonardo da Vinci

Falling In Love, Practice, Ships

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

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The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

Leonardo da Vinci

Eye, Mirrors, Opposites

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]

Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Feet, Twenties

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