Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Page 4

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• People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Aries, Talent

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• Lust is the cause of generation.

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  Lust, Generations, Causes

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.337, GENERAL PRESS

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• Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

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  Experience, Thinker, Reasoning

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.969, Delphi Classics

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• Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

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  Obstacles, Rigor, Destroyed

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

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  Artist, Small Rooms, Space

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• The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

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  Pain, Feelings, Deeper

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• An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

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  Two, Weakness, Arches

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• Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

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  Men, Soul, Divine

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• I love those who can smile in trouble.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Smile

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• Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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  Artist, Honor, Virtue

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• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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  Life, Death, Eulogy

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.260, OUP Oxford

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• It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

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  Understanding, Blame, Praise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

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  Eye, Vision, World

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• Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

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  Distance, Light, Sight

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

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• He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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  Motivational, Character, Years

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

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• He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

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  Evil, Doe, Done

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• Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

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  Practice, Sound, Should

  Dell' Anatomia Vol. II, Ch. 29

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• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

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  God, Work, Technology

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• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

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  Intelligent, Evil, Age

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

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• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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

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• You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

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  Children, Hands, Bread

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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• He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

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  Fear, Danger

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.96, eKitap Projesi

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• In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

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  Art, Beauty Of Life

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• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

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  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

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