Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.
Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.
If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.
To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.
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.
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.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
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.
As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Leonard Da Vinci
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death
No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.
A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
