Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity a...

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there yo...

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Water is the driving force in nature.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the ...

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will loo...

The knowledge of all things is possible

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted p...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does n...

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue...

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our ow...

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before ...

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes...

art is never finished, only abandoned

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for ther...

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know i...

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just u...

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b...

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, co...

Water is the driving force of all nature.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposi...

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does no...

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

Oh Lord thou givest us everything at the price of an effort.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião qu...

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl...

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.

He who thinks little errs much…

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useles...

Life well spent is long.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat...

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect w...

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its...

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the ...

As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold,...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass...

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark exce...

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things ...

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one pl...

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do no...

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself...

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any othe...

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he...

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledg...