Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. — 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 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
