Leonardo da Vinci

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“My body is not a tomb for other creatures.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The knowledge of all things is possible

— Leonardo da Vinci

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Lust is the cause of generation.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

— Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

— Leonardo da Vinci

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed…

— Leonardo da Vinci

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word:…

— Leonardo da Vinci

When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all…

— Leonardo da Vinci

When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all…

— Leonardo da Vinci

In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene,…

— Leonardo da Vinci