“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”Leonardo da Vinci29
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”Leonardo da Vinci6
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”Leonardo da Vinci2
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”Leonardo da Vinci1
“The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surroun...”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre a grelha, para as nuvens, ou para a correnteza da água, descobrindo, assim, coisas maravilhosas....”Leonardo da Vinci0
“The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“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.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Nessuna cosa si può amare nè odiare, se prima no si ha cognition di quella. (No thing you can love or hate, if you don't know it before.)”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“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.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”Leonardo da Vinci0
“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”Leonardo da Vinci0