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Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

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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 Vinci Quotes) 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 Vinci Quotes) 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 Vinci Quotes) 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) 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) 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 Vinci Quotes) Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) 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  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) Among the great things which are to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) A day will come in which men will look upon an animal’s murder the same way they look today upon a man’s murder  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) 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 Quotes) Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) 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  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands... it lies in his power to create them  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world  (Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes)
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