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
The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and… — 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
The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its… — 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
