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Leonardo da Vinci QUOTES

  • Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

  • 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.”

  • Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

  • A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”



  • Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

  • Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

  • Water is the driving force of all nature.

  • You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

  • Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

  • Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

  • 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.


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