30 Quotes About Leonardo-da-vinci
- Author Theresa Breslin
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Being illegitimate is a technicality. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. Men use "bastard" as a curse. But to use the term thus is to show that they themselves are less than a proper human being.
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- Author Leonardo da Vinci
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Perché la minestra si fredda.
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- Author Norman Maclean
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...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci
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- Author Ross King
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At times Leonardo was troubled by his lack of achievement. As a young man he appears to have developed a reputation for melancholia. “Leonardo,” wrote a friend, “why so troubled?” A sad refrain runs through his notebooks: “Tell me if anything was ever done,” he often sighs. Or in another place: “Tell me if ever I did a thing.
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- Author E.M. Forster
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She was like a woman of Leonardo Da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.
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- Author Theresa Breslin
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This was not completely true. I had run so fast that I still had a stitch in my side, but I did not want to be left out of their confraternity of guilt.
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- Author Walter Pater
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Legions of grotesques sweep under his hand; for has not nature too her grotesques—the rent rock, the distorting lights of evening on lonely roads, the unveiled structure of man in the embryo, or the skeleton?
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- Author Leonardo da Vinci
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Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain.
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- Author Anna Del Conte
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Valtellina is the longest Alpine valley, stretching eastwards from the northern shores of Lake Como to the Stelvio peak, 3,500 m/11,500 ft high. This spectacular valley was loved by Leonardo da Vinci, who even mentioned the good osterie (inns) you can find along the route.
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