The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
LEONARDO DA VINCINature 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.
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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I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
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The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.
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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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To become an artist you have to be curious.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.
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To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
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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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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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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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