Color Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

11 Color quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo da Vinci’s thoughts on color blend science and art in a seamless flow. This short collection of eleven quotes captures his nuanced understanding of hue, light, and perception.

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

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Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and…

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

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Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness…

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There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to…

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

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The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is…

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The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no…

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The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no…

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

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You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds…

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The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

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An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

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But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not…

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“Time stays long enough for those who use it.”

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It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall…

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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

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Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

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Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

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

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People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

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