Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes About Art, Love, Life, And Science
Leonardo da Vinci was known and widely admired for his painting of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.
He assumed many roles, as his genius, talents, and interests opened pathways for accomplishment, as a painter, a portraitist, an architect, engineer, an inventor, a philosopher, a geologist, among other things.
Leonardo Da Vinci quotations include:
- Quotes About Art
- Quotes About Love
- Quotes About Life
- Quotes About Science
- Quotes About Nature
- Quotes About Knowledge
Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes About Art
“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is a painting that is felt rather than seen.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“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.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.” ― Leonardo Da Vinci
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.” ― Leonardo da VinciÂ
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“The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“To become an artist you have to be curious.” ― Leonardo Da Vinci
“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard: but if he will apply himself to learn from the objects of nature he will produce good results. This we see was the case with the painters who came after the time of the Romans, for they continually imitated each other, and from age to age their art steadily declined.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes About Love
“life without love, is no life at all” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.” ― Leonardo DaVinci
“If there's no love, what then?” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“...the love of anything is the offspring of knowledge, love being more fervent in proportion as knowledge is more certain. And this certainty springs from a complete knowledge of all parts which united compose the whole of the thing which out to be loved.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes About Life
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Our life is made by the death of others.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life does not deserve it. Never destroy another life through rage, or through malice.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us." ― Leonardo da Vinci
"Hold property and external riches with fear; they often leave their possessor scorned and mocked at for having lost them.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner, you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.” ― 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
“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes About Science
“Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good..” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Mathematics, such as appertain to painting, are necessary to the painter, also the absence of companions who are alien to his studies: his brain must be versatile and susceptible to the variety of objects which it encounters, and free from distracting cares.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“In nature, there is no effect without a cause…Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“To me, it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, a firsthand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses such as the existence of a God or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention,” ― 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
“And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“No human investigation can be called real knowledge if it does not pass through mathematical demonstrations; and if you say that the kinds of knowledge that begin and end in the mind have any value as truth, this cannot be conceded, but rather must be denied for many reasons, and first of all because in such mental discussions there is no experimentation, without which nothing provides certainty of itself.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes About Nature
“Water is the driving force in nature.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“How many paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, the work of the painter is nobler than that of nature, its mistress.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“To Nature, since it is only by chance that they wear the human” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“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 Vinci
“To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes About Knowledge
“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions” ― Leonardo Da Vinci
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The knowledge of all things is possible” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” ― 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
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. ” ― Leonardo DaVinci
“I believe man will fly and I base this assumption on the fact that God has blessed us with minds that are capable of imagining it. Anything that can be dreamt of will eventually be built. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“God sells us all things at the price of labor.” ― Leonardo Da Vinci
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