The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that… — 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
