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Leonardo DaVinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci

  • Yaroslava Kiryukhinahas quoted6 years ago
    Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going
  • logancchelsiehas quoted6 years ago
    We know very well that errors are better recognised in the works of others than in our own; and that often, while reproving little faults in others, you may ignore great ones in yourself
  • Revathi Ganeshhas quoted3 years ago
    The sorest misfortune is when your views are in advance of your work.
  • Yuly Mendozahas quoted3 years ago
    The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.

    Life if well spent, is long.
  • sadovnikovavhas quoted6 years ago
    The sorest misfortune is when your views are in advance of your work.
  • Jovana Ivanovichas quotedlast month
    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. This little work of mine will be a tissue [of the studies] of these attributes, reminding the painter of the rules and methods by which he should use his art to imitate all the works of Nature which adorn the world.
  • akisnichanhas quoted2 months ago
    Every evil leaves behind a grief in our memory, except the supreme evil, that is death, which destroys this memory together with life.
  • 1 2has quoted2 months ago
    declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror. For the first is something in itself, and the other nothingness – folks little indebted to Nature, since it is only by chance that they wear the human form and without it I might class them with the herds of beasts.
  • Aya 🌙has quoted3 months ago
    The sorest misfortune is when your views are in advance of your work
  • b9401943123has quoted4 months ago
    And if you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. Now which is the worse defect? To be blind or dumb?
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