Ancient Quote by Leonardo da Vinci Download Open image “It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.” — Leonardo da Vinci ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Modern
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. — William Penn Copy Share Image
I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and… — Novalis Copy Share Image
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era. — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“A lack of methodology in Upper Palaeolithic art research has led to confusion of priorities.” — James David Lewis-Williams 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
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
