The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe? — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
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 Copy Share
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
