Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of… — 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
