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" Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading. "

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" There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all. "

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" The Medici created and destroyed me. "

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" Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers. "

" I have wasted my hours. "

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" Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. "

" Life well spent is long. "

" 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. "

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

" The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. "

" The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. "

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

" 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. "

" The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. "

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

" Our life is made by the death of others. "

" The smallest feline is a masterpiece. "

" Nature never breaks her own laws. "

" Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "

" Who sows virtue reaps honor. "

" Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. "

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

" Art is never finished, only abandoned. "

" The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence. "

" I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. "

" As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. "

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

" Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. "

" Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. "

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