Wednesday Vignette: Intricacies

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“Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind:

Study the science of art.

Study the art of science.

Develop your senses-

especially learn how to see.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

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Leonardo da Vinci

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“The artist is the confidant of nature,

flowers carry on dialogues with him

through the graceful bending of their stems

and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms.

Every flower has a cordial word

which nature directs towards him.”

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Auguste Rodin

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“All sciences are vain and full of errors

that are not born of Experience,

the mother of all Knowledge.”

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Leonardo da Vinci

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“Patience is also a form of action.”

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Auguste Rodin

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“While human ingenuity may devise

various inventions to the same ends,

it will never devise anything more beautiful,

nor more simple,

nor more to the purpose than nature does,

because in her inventions nothing is lacking

and nothing is superfluous.”

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Leonardo da Vinci

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“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model,

your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves;

but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree.

No two leaves are exactly the same.

The artist who paints only what is in his mind

must very soon repeat himself.”

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2017

of Mountain Laurel, Kalmia latifolia,

a  North American native shrub

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“Details make perfection,

and perfection is not a detail.”

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Leonardo da Vinci