Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial… — 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
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it,… — 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
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
A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: -… — 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
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — 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
Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more. — 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's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance. — 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
![“If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]” quote by Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c71/leonardo-da-vinci-330_able_if-a-man-has-a-tent-made-of-linen-of-whi_1700682.jpg)
