Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Learning never exhausts the mind.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Our life is made by the death of others.
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
In her (nature’s) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Simplicity
simplicity is the best sophistication
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Mona Lisa
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Death
Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.
Whatever you think matters – doesn’t. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt as a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Learning
Inaction saps the vigour of the mind.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci Quote i Have Been Impressed
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Flight
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.
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Nature
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes the Greatest
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Perspective
Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.
Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Love
The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards the ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tic the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci Quote Everything is Connected
To develop a complete mind: Study the art of science; study the science of art. Learn how to see.
Realize that everything connects to everything else
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Art
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes the Human Body
The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Creativity
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls, the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Flying
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.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Cats
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Science
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish… because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
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.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Water
In time and with water, everything changes.
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.
To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Life
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Animals
Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.
Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Beauty
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.
