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
Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills. — 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 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
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
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently… — 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
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
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter… — 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
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 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
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
Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material… — 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
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the… — 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
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
