The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives... — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — 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
