“Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
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Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
“The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The painter strives and competes with nature.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Savage is he who saves himself.”
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.”
“To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.”
Source: Notebooks
“Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.”
“Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.”
“Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.”
“One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.”
“Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.”
“To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.”
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Source: Notebooks
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”