Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
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Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Some promises and time disappoint us
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
A life well used procures a happy death.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
That which has no limitations, has no form.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish ... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do
— Leonardo Da Vinci
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He who does not oppose evil ... commands it to be done.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!
— Leonardo Da Vinci
My body is not a tomb for other creatures.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
life without love, is no life at all
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The painter strives and competes with nature.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I am never weary of being useful ... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?
— Leonardo Da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.-Leonardo Da Vinci — Oliver Bowden
The cat is nature's masterpiece.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
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.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.
— Yasumasa Morimura
Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions.
— Curtis Bill Pepper
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Our life is made by the death of others.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
To become an artist you have to be curious.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Lies don't solve problems it just make it worst ... so liars beware
— Leonardo Da Vinci
For youth, everything is sport.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
O time! swift devourer of all created things!
— Leonardo Da Vinci
When the fig-tree stood without fruit no one looked at it. Wishing by producing this fruit be praised by men, it was bent and broken by them.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing is hidden under the sun.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
A gray day provides the best light.
— Leonardo Da Vinci