Top 100 Quotes About Leonardo Da Vinci
#1. It's amazing - and poignant - to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had achieved everything he might have done. His notebooks have a repeated refrain: 'Tell me if I ever did a thing.
Ross King
#2. In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Yanko Tsvetkov
#3. He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
[On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#4. As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
Viggo Mortensen
#5. The average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, inhales without smelling, and talks without thinking." - Leonardo da Vinci Benefits
Dharma Hazari
#6. In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.)
Mark Twain
#7. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, author Michael J. Gelb
Jon Acuff
#8. Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.
Reinaldo Arenas
#9. I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.
Roy Ayers
#10. I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.
Jack Kirby
#11. the knowledge of all things is possible," as Leonardo da Vinci once stated.
James Morcan
#12. Leonardo da Vinci wrote in his Notebooks: It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places in which ... you may find really marvelous ideas.
C. G. Jung
#13. Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
Carl Sandburg
#15. While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
Oliver Bowden
#16. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they'd be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
Banksy
#17. The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.
Moby
#18. Two historical figures play prominent roles in this book: a pair of priests who lived centuries apart but who were tied together by fate. During the seventeenth century, Father Athanasius Kircher was known as the Leonardo da Vinci of the Jesuit Order.
James Rollins
#19. The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life
the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense
the life of Blake or of Dante
taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.
James Joyce
#20. Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he esteemed during his lifetime, but his reputation endured and became even greater after his death.
Giorgio Vasari
#21. Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#22. A well-spent day brings happy sleep."
Leonardo Da Vinci
Joe Kenogbon
#23. 58. "Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing" (Leonardo da Vinci).
Maggie Nelson
#24. The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.
Lucio Russo
#25. It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys. Why waste your time, because most likely you're not going to be on that level anyway.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#26. 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
#27. To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate something until we've understood it.
Fernando Pessoa
#28. I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have assumed I was gay. Like Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci. But I was a late developer. I didn't go through puberty until I was 35.
David Duchovny
#29. Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
Ben Shneiderman
#30. You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.
William Friedkin
#31. 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
#32. Leonardo da Vinci had foreseen that beginning humanistically with mathematics one has only particulars and will never come to universals or meaning, but will end only with mechanics. It
Francis A. Schaeffer
#33. Leonardo da Vinci. He knew and achieved more than possibly any other man that ever lived. He was never satisfied with the knowledge he had; he always wanted to learn more about the workings of the world.
Can Akdeniz
#34. A good painter has two chief objects to paint: man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard. - Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1490)
Toby Lester
#35. The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. - Leonardo da Vinci
Raine Miller
#36. When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.
Igor Babailov
#37. Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
Edvard Munch
#38. The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.
Erwin Chargaff
#39. When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Noel Fielding
#40. You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills
Leonardo Da Vinci
#41. Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
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#43. 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
#45. Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common salt, rock alum, alum schist, arsenic, sublimate, realgar, tartar, orpiment, verdegris.
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#47. Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
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#48. First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
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#50. The draperies that clothe figures must show that they are inhabited by these figures, enveloping them neatly to show the posture and motion of such figures, and avoiding the confusion of many folds, especially over the prominent parts, so that these may be evident
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#51. All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#52. A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."
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#53. Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
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#54. If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul ...
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#55. Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
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#56. A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.
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#58. No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
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#59. It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
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#60. Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
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#61. The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
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#62. Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
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#63. If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#64. To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#65. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#66. Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#68. Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
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#69. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#70. All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#71. When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#73. He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#74. I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
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#75. For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
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#80. I expose to men the origin of their first, and perhaps second, reason for existing
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#82. I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.
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#84. I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#85. Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.
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#87. Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
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#90. He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#91. Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#92. Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings ... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#93. As a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep
so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying
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#94. The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.
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#97. The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.
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#100. He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
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