Leonardo da Vinci
"The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark."
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"The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
"If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight."
Leonardo da Vinci
"It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
Leonardo da Vinci
"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Water is the driving force in nature."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death"
Leonardo da Vinci
"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
Leonardo da Vinci
"God sells us all things at the price of labor."
Leonardo da Vinci
"art is never finished, only abandoned"
Leonardo da Vinci
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
Leonardo da Vinci
"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."
Leonardo da Vinci
"What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art"
Leonardo da Vinci
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."
Leonardo da Vinci
"As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Leonard Da Vinci"
Leonardo da Vinci
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