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
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 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
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
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
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
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. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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