Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Art is the queen of all sciences.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
I love those who can smile in trouble.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
In painting, the most important things are the shadows.
Everything is inspired by love, yet everything depends on it.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Let your work with others be such, that men shall speak of you as they do of Raphael, or of Titian, or of Michelangelo.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing, is not enough; we must do.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
Realize that everything connects to everything else.
It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Art is the queen of all sciences.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Art is the queen of all sciences, communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
I paint things as I see them, not as I sense they should be.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Experience does not err; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
People of accomplishment rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
A good painter is to paint two main things, that is to say, man and the workings of man’s mind.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Art is the queen of all sciences, communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Art is the queen of all sciences.
I shall sing the praises of gray, where dust is born.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.