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 Copy Share Image
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects;… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
