99+ Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Poetry, Flight and Schooling - Quotes.pub

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If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not ‘singular’ or ‘distant,’ or whatever you like to call him.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

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.

Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.

One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

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A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

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.”

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.

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.

The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.

Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.

Whatever you think matters – doesn’t. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

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