Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Leonardo Da Vinci on Wise Famous Quotes.
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
I am never weary of being useful ... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body ... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.