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" The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? "

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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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" Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. "

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

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" Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. "

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" People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see. "

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" He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. "

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" The smallest feline is a masterpiece. "

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" The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it. "

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" A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. "

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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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" Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. "

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" Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. "

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" Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. "

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" In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind. "

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" For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. "

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" Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. "

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" 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. "

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