A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul. — 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
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and… — 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… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which… — 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
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and… — 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
“If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from 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
