O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of… — 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
“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ. — 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
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
