Leonardo da Vinci on art
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci The knowledge of all things is possible.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Being willing is not enough. We must do.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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