Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child 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
