Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of… — 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
It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains… — 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
