The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth… — 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 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
