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" Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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" The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow. "

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" Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. "

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" The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. "

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" While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. "

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