A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees.… — 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
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head,… — 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
