It seems to me that men of coarse and clumsy habits and of small knowledge do not deserve such fine instruments nor so great a variety of natural mec… - Leonardo da Vinci

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It seems to me that men of coarse and clumsy habits and of small knowledge do not deserve such fine instruments nor so great a variety of natural mechanism as men of speculation and of great knowledge; but merely a sack in which their food may be stowed and whence it may issue, since they cannot be judged to be any thing else than vehicles for food; for it seems to me they have nothing about them of the human species but the voice and the figure, and for all the rest are much below beasts.

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About Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and musician. His best known painting is the Mona Lisa.

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Alternative Names: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci Leonard Léonard Leonardo Da Vinci
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45. *Contra los ornamentos excesivos y demasiados elaborados*

Tú, pintor, estudia el modo de hacer tus obras para que atraigan a sus espectadores y los mantengan quietos con gran admiración y deleite, que no los atraigan para rechazarlos muy pronto, como hace el aire con quien, en los tiempos nocturnos, salta desnudo de la cama para contemplar la calidad del aire nublado o sereno, que de inmediato, expulsado por el frío del aire, vuelve a la cama de donde ha partido. Haz más bien tus obras semejantes a ese aire que en los tiempos cálidos saca a los hombres de sus camas y los retiene con deleite para apropiarse del fresco del estío. No quieras ser antes práctico que docto, y que la avaricia termine venciendo a la gloria, que con tal arte por mérito se conquista.

«¿No ves que entre las bellezas humanas es una cara muy bella la que detiene a los paseantes y no sus ricos ornamentos?»

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Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.

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