Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 24

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• Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  May, Whole, Incompleteness

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

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• A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Shadow, Body, Brilliant

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.105, GENERAL 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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• 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 light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Order, Drawing, Light

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.183, GENERAL PRESS

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• The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Dark, Intelligent

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.37, GENERAL PRESS

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• Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Pain, Moving, Blow

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.271, Lulu.com

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• O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Kings, Space

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.453, GENERAL PRESS

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