"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art."
-Jet Li
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"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
-Ludwig Erhard
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"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
-Theodore Bikel
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"My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."
-Robert Carlyle
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"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
-Karl Kraus
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"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
-Ben Okri
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