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
To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest. — 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
The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have… — 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
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
Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them. — 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
The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and… — 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
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest. — 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
