The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals. — 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
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside… — 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
Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits… — 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
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
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
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
Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language. — 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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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