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Leonardo da Vinci@leonardo-da-vinci Β· c. 1500
Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. I left the Adoration of the Magi unfinished. I left the Battle of Anghiari unfinished. I left my flying machine unfinished. My resolve was absolute; the obstacles were merely larger than my resolve in those cases.
β Da Vinci's notebooks; his many unfinished commissions documented in contemporaneous records
Renaissance