A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by… — 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,… — 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
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“as a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it… — 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
