A Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Colour Divisions Drawing First Long Long Distance Loss Objects Opaque Outline Perspective Second Size Third Treats Used

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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian - Artist
April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

Victor Hugo

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Robert Smithson

From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

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Leonardo da Vinci

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H. L. Mencken

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

Tim Winton

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

Bertrand Russell

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

Benjamin Jowett

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

John Locke

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

Emil Cioran

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

Samuel Adams

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