Leonardo Quotes
71 quotes by 67 authors
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If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
— Jim Carrey
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!
— Christa B. Allen
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a…
— George Bernard Shaw
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When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look…
— Ellen Barkin
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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of…
— John F. Kennedy
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Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.
— Robert Bresson
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Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
— Ben Shneiderman
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But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well…
— Juana Inés de la Cruz
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How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is…
— Stanley Kubrick
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I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see…
— Ciaran Carson
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The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you…
— Leonardo Sciascia
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I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same…
— Roy Ayers
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Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came…
— Helen Mirren
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I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d…
— Banksy
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Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as…
— Reinaldo Arenas
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted -…
— Sam Rockwell
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
— Banksy
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Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!
— Ellen Kushner
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