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Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists
“We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci
“He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.”
“Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.”
Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists
Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists
“Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: Notebooks
“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.”
Source: Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”
“A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.”
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“We ought not to desire the impossible.”
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“The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.”
Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo
“Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.”
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“A long life is a life well spent.”
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“If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.”
Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo
“Lust is the cause of generation.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
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“Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.”
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“He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.”
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“Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.”
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Source: Thoughts on art and life
“It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.”
Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo
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Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)