Able Quote by Leonardo da Vinci Download Open image “It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.” — Leonardo da Vinci ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Competence Honour One thing Painter Painting Wells
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their… — John Frederick Boyes 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
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