Art Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

— Leonardo da Vinci

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

— Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially…

— Leonardo da Vinci

An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own…

— Leonardo da Vinci

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything…

— Leonardo da Vinci

After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as…

— 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

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

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

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Study the science of art and the art of science.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

— Leonardo da Vinci

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci