Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
LEONARDO DA VINCIA diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
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We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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