da Vinci quote "Those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty."
That was a wonderful quote and a good reminder to those young upstart Lab Coat Clerics. Here are some more.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
and this one for all you fashion plates...
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind"
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation.....even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind"
"Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence."
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."
"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things"
"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."
"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgment. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller, and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or portion is more readily seen"
"The mind of the painter should be like a mirror which always takes the colour of the thing that it reflects, and which is filled by as many images as there are things placed before it."
"How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains."
"No one should ever imitate the style of another because he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature with regard to art."
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