Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer… — 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
Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and… — 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
