The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and… — 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
