I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. — 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
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot… — 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
An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. — 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
