To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful. — 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
The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives... — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. — 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
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws. — 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
When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds… — 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
