I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
LEONARDO DA VINCIIt 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.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
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Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
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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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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
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Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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He who thinks little errs much.
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I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
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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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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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Life without love, is no life at all.
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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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