"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.“
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
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