self portrait; 1515
Leonardo da Vinci, Drapery for a seated figure, Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. no. 2255
Brush and gray tempera, highlighted with white, on gray prepared linen
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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