Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Artist, Scientist, Inventor

Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance polymath known for masterpieces like the Mona Lisa and his innovative contributions to art and science.

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Born
April 15, 1452
Died
May 2, 1519
Quotes
583
Rank
#230

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"I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind."

Beautiful Opportunity Thinking
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"Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit."

Intelligent Heaven Body
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"The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses."

Imagination Rudders Faculty
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"Nature alone is the master of true genius."

Nature Genius Masters
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"I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental."

Time Hopeful Coincidence
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"Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery."

Inspirational Life Confusion
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"O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away."

Time Wrinkles Mirrors
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"Some promises and time disappoint us"

Promise Disappoint
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"Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished."

Proportion Grows
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"The painter strives and competes with nature."

Strive Strife Painter
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"Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye."

Sleep Eye Body
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"Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience."

May Able Worthy
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"I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by."

Beautiful Strong Together
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"The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time."

Eye Intelligent Objects
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"If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them."

Mistake May Firsts
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"Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on."

Color Yellow White
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"The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it."

Fall Tree Vines
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