Selected quotes · 26
№ 01
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”
Leonardo da VinciCreativity
№ 02
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
Leonardo da VinciWisdom
№ 03
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
Leonardo da VinciWisdom
№ 04
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Leonardo da VinciHappiness
№ 05
“Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.”
Leonardo da VinciCourage
№ 06
“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”
Leonardo da VinciCreativity
№ 07
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Leonardo da VinciCreativity
№ 08
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Leonardo da VinciJustice
№ 09
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
Leonardo da VinciNature
№ 10
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
Leonardo da VinciCreativity
№ 11
“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.”
Leonardo da VinciCreativity
№ 12
“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 VinciCreativity
№ 13
“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 VinciCourage
№ 14
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
Leonardo da VinciLeadership
№ 15
“In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.”
Leonardo da VinciSuccess
№ 16
“The natural desire of good men is knowledge.”
Leonardo da VinciTime
№ 17
“It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
Leonardo da VinciAction
№ 18
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Leonardo da VinciMindset
№ 19
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Leonardo da VinciGrowth
№ 20
“Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.”
Leonardo da VinciMindset
№ 21
“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
Leonardo da VinciMindset
№ 22
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
Leonardo da VinciCreativity
№ 23
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
Leonardo da VinciFreedom
№ 24
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da VinciWisdom
№ 25
“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 VinciAction
№ 26
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
Leonardo da VinciAction