“Nothing is that which fills no space.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), II Linear Perspective
Context: Nothing is that which fills no space. If one single point placed in a circle may be the starting point of an infinite number of lines, and the termination of an infinite number of lines, there must be an infinite number of points separable from this point, and these when reunited become one again; whence it follows that the part may be equal to the whole.
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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519Related quotes
“The point, being indivisible, occupies no space. That which occupies no space is nothing.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), II Linear Perspective
Context: The point, being indivisible, occupies no space. That which occupies no space is nothing. The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.
“You have to create the space for God to fill.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 53
“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
“Think of me what you will,
I've got a little space to fill.”
You Don't Know How it Feels
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)
“This man has one dominating idea.. to fill space in a beautiful way.”
Georgia O'Keeffe, The Artists Voice - Talks with Seventeen Artists, New York Harper & Row (1962)
Ohne Begeisterung, welche die Seele mit einer gesunden Wärme erfüllt, wird nie etwas Großes zustande gebracht.
As quoted in 30 Minuten für intelligente Schlagfertigkeit (2004) by Stephané Etrillard, p. 55.