To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing… — 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
The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture. — 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
