Da Vinci Quotes

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

— Mark Twain

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. -Leonardo Da Vinci”

— Oliver Bowden

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“It is complete loose stool water. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind. - About "The Da Vinci Code”

— Stephen Fry

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

— Banksy

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

— Ian Mckellen

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

— Goran Ivanisevic

I was so hooked to 'The Da Vinci Code' that I jumped out of bed at 2 A. M., and could only…

— P. R. Sreejesh

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

— Ben Shneiderman

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great…

— Igor Babailov

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that…

— David S. Goyer

“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."…

— Salman Rushdie

Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that…

— Steven Pinker

I particularly like the catchphrase of Leonardo Da Vinci: Ostinato Rigore! (Which means, pretty much, Relentless Rigor).

— Paul Lynch

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I…

— Eric Kandel

“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed,…

— Graham Greene

The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the…

— James Joyce

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had…

— Carl Sandburg

I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down…

— Robert Lepage

When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da…

— Jim Starlin

My band's motto is 'Yngwie or the highway.' Do you think Leonardo Da Vinci allowed someone who came later to add to…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

“None of us is a Da Vinci, painting the Mona Lisa in the morning and designing helicopters at night. That’s as it…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“The world of publishing is in crisis. It's no coincidence that the worst published writer in the world today is also one…

— Stewart Lee

“Men seemed to have shrunk in stature before the vastness of the mechanical contrivances they had invented. Michael Angelo, da Vinci, Aretino,…

— John Dos Passos

“To a very strange lizard, found by the gardener of the Belvedere, he [Leonardo] fastened some wings with a mixture of quicksilver…

— Girogio Vasari

Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the…

— Frances Mayes

“I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount…

— Steve Jobs

The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled…

— Geoffrey K. Pullum

I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in…

— Patti Smith

When books come out on religion today, what are they about, well, Noah's Ark or when we go to heaven, does our…

— Vincent Bugliosi

“Leonardo da Vinci, was brought to the Vatican in 1513 by the new pope, Leo X, and given a list of commissions…

— Benjamin Blech

“ Money Facts The Lira was the basic unit of Italian currency from 1861, when Ital was unified, to 2002. That year,…

— Jean F. Blashfield

“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham…

— Alan Lee

“Reality is based on your perception of the truth. Think about that statement for a bit, it will blow your mind, and…

— Steven Aitchison

“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you…

— Pablo

“When you travel you become invisible if you want. I do want. I like to be the observer. What makes these people…

— Frances Mayes

“The perpetrator of such a misdemeanor must have a motive. Is UMMO the private joke of a group of Spanish engineers? Is…

— Jacques F. Vallée

“ “I’m talking about greatness, about taking a lever to the world and moving it,” Larry Ellison said, walking the grounds of…

— Julian Guthrie