Quotes About Art Leonardo Da Vinci

#1. Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

Ben Shneiderman

#2. A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#3. I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it ... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#4. Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#5. We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

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#6. Human ingenuity," wrote Leonardo da Vinci, whose Vitruvian Man became the ultimate symbol of the intersection of art and science, "will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does.

Walter Isaacson

#7. Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#10. Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#11. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#12. O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

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#13. Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.

Yasumasa Morimura

#14. Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#15. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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#16. In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

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#17. I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

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#18. The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#19. One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#20. Study the science of art and the art of science.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#21. If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.

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#22. What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

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#23. First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

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#24. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

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#25. Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

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#26. Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

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#27. He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

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#28. A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

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#29. Art is never completed, only abandoned.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#30. How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#31. O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Leonardo Da Vinci

#32. Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#33. The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

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#34. In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them ...

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#35. Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

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#36. As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.
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#37. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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#38. A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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#39. No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

Leonardo Da Vinci