Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.
A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.
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.
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.
When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.
The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives.
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.
Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.
Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.
