Source: Leonardo's Notebooks
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Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
“Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light”
Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists
Source: Notebooks
“He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.”
“We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.”
Source: A Treatise on Painting:
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Source: Notebooks
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”
“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art”
Source: Da Vinci Notebooks
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
Source: Notebooks
“The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.”
Source: Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519
Source: Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd
Source: Notebooks
Source: A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art
“How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.”
Source: Notebooks
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
Source: Notebooks