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Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
“Truth was always but the daughter of time.”
“For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.”
“Good writing comes from good talent.”
“A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.”
“Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.”
“The five senses are the ministers of the soul.”
“I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.”
“In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.”
“We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.”
“Nothing is hidden under the sun.”
“When taking a selfie, remember the most natural pose is still best”
“Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.”
“Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.”
“Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.”
“Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same”
“Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.”
“An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.”
“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.”
“Motion is created by the destruction of balance.”
“We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.”
“Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.”
“Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.”
“Inequality is the cause of all local movements.”
“Ask advice of him who governs himself well.”
“Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?”