Leonardo Da Vinci | Artist & Genius 🎨

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"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."

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

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

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."

"Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort."

"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast."

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

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

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

“Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.”

“Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.”

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.”

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

"The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake."

“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.”

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

“No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.”