Quotes by "Leonardo da Vinci"

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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.

Oh Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Our life is made by the death of others.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre a grelha, para as nuvens, ou para a correnteza da água, descobrindo, assim, coisas maravilhosas. O génio do pintor há-de se apossar de todas essas coisas para criar composições diversas: luta de homens e de animais, paisagens, monstros, demónios e outras coisas fantásticas. Tudo, enfim, servirá para engrandecer o artista.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

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.

Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso.

Der Augenblick ist zeitlos.

We do not lack devices for measuring these miserable days of ours, in which it should be our pleasure that they be not frittered away without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men.