"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"All great acts of genius began with the same consideration: do not be constrained by your present reality." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is never finished, only abandoned.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye." ~Leonardo da Vinci
“Even the smallest feline is a work of art.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation. For when you come back to your work, your judgement will be surer." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” ~Leonard da Vinci
"Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"He turns not back who is bound to a star." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"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
"Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity — by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles..." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"I awoke only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." ~Leonardo Da Vinci (Da Vinci claimed that flesh eaters were using their bodies as "grave yards.)
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings." ~Leonardo da Vinci c 1490 (from Peter Mamone, FB, October 2013)
"If you want to be trusted, be honest." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Learning is the only thing that mind doesn't exhaust." ~Da Vinci
"Learning never exhausts the mind." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the pace is darkest." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"My works are the issue of pure and simple experience, who is the one true mistress." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Learning never exhausts the mind." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the pace is darkest." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"My works are the issue of pure and simple experience, who is the one true mistress." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Nature is the source of all true knowledge." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as "silence." ~Leonardo da Vinci
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Our life is made by the death of others." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. " ~Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Realize that everything connects to everything else." -Leonardo da Vinci
"Self-absorption brings confusion, sitting around thinking in circles brings complexity. Wisdom is discernible and straightforward." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~Leonardo da Vinci
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
"The eye — which sees all objects reversed — retains the images for some time." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"The greatest deception men suffer from is in their own opinions." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
"The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee…gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"The painter has the universe in his mind and hands." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"The soul is the life of the body, just as a doll is the life of a child." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." ~~Leonardo da Vinci
"Water is the driving force in nature." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
“When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?" ~Leonardo da Vinci
"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a mans success is gauged by his self-mastery: the depth of failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
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“The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." ~~Leonardo da Vinci
"Water is the driving force in nature." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
“When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?" ~Leonardo da Vinci
"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a mans success is gauged by his self-mastery: the depth of failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
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