…all dynamics must have a certain asymmetry. And we know in art that the dynamic symmetry of the great masters of Leonardo and Michelangelo, both of whom were profoundly acquainted with the Pythagorean doctrine. But the dynamic of these artists is always…

…and cultural things, but most of the emphasis was bad. It was the emphasis of the court of the Borgias of the Medici. Leonardo Rose is a great human being. And his genius was apparently parentless and without forebear or even cultural science. He was a…

…thing that no equivalent could be found among men for it. Thus, sublimity was used as a means of exaggeration. as Leonardo and Michelangelo realized and exhibited later also the dynamic of the so-called heroic proportion or by the voluntary and intentional…

…he is doing is fulfilling his own sense of proportion, propriety, harmony, and rhythm. Great artists like Durer, Michelangelo, Leonardo were great mathematicians. They were also great anatomists and physiologists. They produced inventions in many fields of life.…

…happens to an art which the individual feels he cannot excel. There are very few modern artists that are going to compete with Leonardo. They are just going to ignore him, develop a style of their own, influence an agent to take care of a distribution…

…work such as the Mona Lisa, the man who painted the face did not paint the background. Even a man of the skill of Leonardo was a specialist, and in many instances the master merely added the final touches to the works of his disciples. But even where…

…strange, for a modern person to go in and have a seal made with a signature of Leonardo da Vinci on it. Now, if Leonardo had used a seal, it could be duplicated today without the slightest difficulty. Yet the seal is a very important thing in Asiatic…

…but did not carry the point as far as this great anatomist. In one of his drawings, following earlier custom of course, Leonardo labels the central ventricular orifice of the brain the place of the community of the senses. He calls this, of course, where…

…the greatest release we know is the found in the time when art was most appreciated we have the wonderful work of Leonardo we have the magnificent sculpturing of Michelangelo We have all the glories and marvels of Durer and Botticelli, all these great…

…of happiness. It is not absolute happiness. Beethoven was not absolutely happy by any means, neither was Wagner or Michelangelo or Leonardo. They had great satisfaction, undoubtedly, in a strange selfish way in the things that they did. They also had great…

…or the true seal of the king. This is the impression of its own etheric pattern, infinitely repeated in structure. Leonardo realized that growth in nature is an infinite repetition of an identical theme, that this theme is variously specialized. differing…

…ones in whose hearts the good peace has been granted. Buddhists would not hesitate to say that Pythagoras or Plato or Michelangelo or Leonardo were all the ones in whose we're ready to sacrifice more easily brought He is worthy only of the light. For in…

…the great work of these people has been done by those with dreams, hopes, ideals and convictions beyond materiality. The Leonardo da Vinci's, all of these, Michelangelo, all such great artists, all musicians, all idealists in painting and everything, all of…

…perfected by art. An action which we find perhaps most nearly approached in the artistic canons of men like Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo never regarded the body merely as the house of life. He examined it. He measured it. He estimated it. He came to…

…that these artists have their schools and workshops where they instructed others, but who taught them? Who taught Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael and Titian, Rembrandt, Van Dyck? They dominated the schools of their times, and while they may, some of them,…

…harmonious, well-integrated home can be mathematically diagrammed, and the diagram will be the perfect structure for a building. This is what Leonardo meant by certain of his patterns. In other words, there is a dynamic which extends from one level of life…