Tag: Leonardo da Vinci
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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.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.
Leonardo da Vinci
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There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
Leonardo da Vinci