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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

~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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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

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All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

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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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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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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

~Leonardo Da Vinci

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Artist

Born: April 15th, 1452

Died: May 2nd, 1519

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