Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci Quotes

• One can have no greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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• The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

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• Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

   

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

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

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• Simplicity is the ultimate form sophistication.

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• 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.

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• You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

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

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• Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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• Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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• Water is the driving force of all nature.

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• Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

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• There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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• The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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• The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

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• The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

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• The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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• The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

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• The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (81)

Birth:	15th April, 1492
Death:	2nd May, 1519
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Professor

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".

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