Body Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

My body is not a tomb for animals.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

— Leonardo da Vinci

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

— Leonardo da Vinci

To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense…

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings.…

— 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

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

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

If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation;…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

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