The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Among the great things which are to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation;… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — 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
