Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

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

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Learn diligence before speedy execution.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

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.

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.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

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.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

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

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

Our life is made by the death of others.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

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

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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.

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.