“It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.”
Source: A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art
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Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
“We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: Notebooks
“A long life is a life well spent.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.”
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“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
“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”
Source: Notebooks
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
“Ask advice of him who governs himself well.”
Source: Notebooks