Leonardo da Vinci: Cytaty po angielsku

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“Men will deal rude blows to that which is the cause of their life: They will thrash the grain.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies

“Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them; and therefore they are of the colour of night, that is black. And in cold countries it is just the contrary.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XVII Topographical Notes

“Disgrace should be represented upside down, because all her deeds are contrary to God and tend to hell.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

“O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“First, of things relating to animals; secondly, of irrational creatures; thirdly of plants; fourthly, of ceremonies; fifthly, of manners; sixthly, of cases or edicts or quarrels; seventhly, of cases that are impossible in nature [paradoxes], as, for instance, of those things which, the more is taken from them, the more they grow. And reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“We see the most striking example of humility in the lamb which will submit to any animal; and when they are given for food to imprisoned lions they are as gentle to them as to their own mother, so that very often it has been seen that the lions forbear to kill them.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), VI Perspective of Colour and Aerial Perspective

“Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“He who does not value life does not deserve it.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy

“Many will there be who will give up work and labour and poverty of life and goods, and will go to live among wealth in splendid buildings, declaring that this is the way to make themselves acceptable to God.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“Fear arises sooner than anything else.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“If you wish to thoroughly accustom yourself to correct and good positions for your fingers, fasten a frame or a loom divided into squares by threads between your eye and the nude figure which you are representing, and then make the same squares upon the paper where you wish to draw the said nude but very faintly. You should then put a pellet of wax on a part of the network to serve as a mark which as you look at your model should always cover the pit of the throat, or if he should have turned his back make it cover one of the vertebrae of the neck. …The squares you draw may be as much smaller than those of the network in proportion as you wish your figure to be less than life size…”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter

“There will be many men who will move one against another, holding in their hands a cutting tool. But these will not do each other any injury beyond tiring each other; for, when one pushes forward the other will draw back. But woe to him who comes between them! For he will end by being cut in pieces.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“If the Lord — who is the light of all things — vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts… Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting

“The ball of snow when, as it rolls, it descends from the snowy mountains, increases in size as it falls.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“If you take as your pattern the wings of feathered birds, these are more powerful in structure of bone and sinew because they are penetrable, that is to say the feathers are separated from one another and the air passes through them. But the bat is aided by its membrane, which binds the whole together and is not penetrated by the air.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight

“Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter

“May it please our great Author that I may demonstrate the nature of man and his customs, in the way I describe his figure.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.

“A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IV Perspective of Disappearance

“Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.”

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Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Wariant: Where there is most power of feeling, there of martyrs is the greatest martyr.