Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are… — 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
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. — 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
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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
Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For… — 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
