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Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
“It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.”
“That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.”
“The painter strives and competes with nature.”
“The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art”
“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
“If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.”
“A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.”
“The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.”
“A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.”