Quotes by
Leonardo da Vinci |
1452-1519 , Italian polymath & painter
Painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His Last Supper and Mona Lisa are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. He was the archetypal renaissance man.
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Quotations
| • | Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. 9 |
| • | Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. 6 |
| • | I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have. (his last words) 3 |
| • | Nature never breaks her own laws. 1 |
| • | Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. 1 |
| • | Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. 1 |
| • | Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail. 1 |
| • | Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. 1 |
| • | Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake? 1 |
| • | Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. 1 |
| • | Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. 1 |
| • | God sells us all things at the price of labor. 1 |
| • | Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. 1 |
| • | The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of. 1 |
| • | The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. 1 |
| • | I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die. 1 |
| • | The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain. 1 |
| • | The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. 1 |
| • | The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. 1 |
| • | Art is never finished, only abandoned. 1 |
| • | Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood. 1 |
| • | The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. 1 |
| • | Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. 1 |
| • | The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. 1 |
| • | A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. 1 |
| • | It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters. 1 |
| • | He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. 1 |
| • | He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. 1 |
| • | He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss. 1 |
| • | Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker. 1 |
| • | Truth was the only daughter of Time. 1 |
| • | Our life is made by the death of others. 1 |
| • | A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself. 1 |
| • | Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light. 1 |
| • | Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature. 1 |
| • | It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. 1 |
| • | Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master. 1 |
| • | As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. 1 |
| • | Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. 1 |
