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Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) was a painter, inventor, artist, and scientist, with interests in areas as varied as architecture, sculpture, mathematics, literature, geology, or mathematics.
Here are his best phrases about art, the universe, love, life and much more. You may also be interested in these phrases about art or these about science.
-Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
-Once you have tried the flight you will walk on the ground and your eyes will look up to the sky, because once you have been there it will take a long time to return.
-It has long come to my attention that people of achievement rarely sit down and let things pass. They go outside and make things happen.
-Just like courage endangers life, fear protects it.
-While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-A well spent day leads to a happy dream.
-He who sows virtue reaps honor.
-The greatest disappointments that man suffers are due to his own opinions.
-Art is never finished, it is only abandoned.
-There are three classes of men: those who see, those who see when shown and those who do not see.
-Nothing strengthens both authority and silence.
-Marriage is like putting your hand in a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
-The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
-You cannot have greater control than over yourself.
-I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
-The truth about things is the main food of higher minds.
-I have offended God and humanity because my work has not reached the quality it should have.
-Why does the eye see things clearer in dreams than in imagination when we wake up?
-I've wasted my hours.
-The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
-All our knowledge has its origin in perception.
-Nature never breaks its own laws.
-The function of the muscle is to pull not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
-Water is the force that guides nature.
-Life well spent is long.
-When there are screams there is no true knowledge.
-Anyone who leads a discussion appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is using his memory.
-Learning never tires the mind.
-Although nature begins with reason and ends with experience, it is necessary that we do the opposite, which is to begin with experience and from there proceed to investigate reason.
-Who does not condemn evil, orders it to be done.
-The tears come from the heart, not from the brain.
-Learn to see. Realize that everything is connected.
-The artist sees what others can only glimpse.
-A life without love is not life.
-The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
-To develop a complete mind: study the science of art, study the art of science.
-I woke up only to see that the rest of the world is still sleeping.
-Studying without wanting to spoil memory.
-The first step to get anywhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are today.
-The time will come when men look at the number of animals killed as much as they now look at the number of dead people.
-Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
-The poet knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-Beauty dies with life, but is immortalized in art.
-If you can, you should make yourself laugh until the dead.
-Just as iron rusts from lack of use and stagnant water becomes rotten, inactivity destroys the intellect.
-Common sense is the one that judges what the rest of the senses perceive.
-Every artist should start a canvas with a black bath, since all things in nature are dark, until they are exposed to light.
-Blind ignorance deceives us O unfortunate mortals, open your eyes!
-The painting is poetry that can be seen, but not heard.
-Intellectual passion exudes sensuality.
-The time is left long enough for anyone to use it.
-My body will not be a grave for other creatures.
-Poor of the pupil who does not surpass his teacher.
-A beautiful body perishes, but a piece of art never dies.
-The painting concerns all aspects of vision: darkness, light, solidity and color, shape and position, distance and propincuity, movement and rest.
-The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
-Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements, disease is the discord of the elements imbued in the body.
-The smallest of felines is a piece of art.
-In rivers, the water you touch is the last to pass and the first to come, so is the present.
-Our life is made by the death of others.
-There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and greed. The first two are elemental, and the other sensual.
-It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
-Nature is the source of true knowledge. It has its own logic, its own laws, it has no effect without cause and no needless invention.
-Great men start great works, workers finish them.
-It is better to imitate the old work than the modern one.
-He who wishes to be rich in one day will be hanged in a year.
-Just as each divided kingdom fell, each divided mind among many studies confuses and undermines itself.
-Science is the captain and practice the soldier.
-I have always felt that it is my destiny to build a machine that will allow man to fly.
-If you are alone, you belong entirely to yourself.
-The knowledge of all things is possible.
-If you can't do what you want, he wants what you can do.
-One has no right to love or hate something if one has not acquired a deep knowledge of its nature.
-God sells us all things at the price of work.
-He who owns more must be more afraid of losing.
-Poetry is painting that can be heard, but not seen.
-Life is quite simple: you do some things. Most fail. Others work. You do more of those jobs. If it works better, others quickly copy it. So you do something different. The trick is to do something different.
-I love those who can smile with problems, who can take strength from anguish and grow bravely through reflection. Those whose conscience approves of his conduct will pursue his principles to the death.
-Really, man is the king of beasts, because his brutality surpasses that of beasts. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
-Knowledge is the daughter of experience.
-Need is the teacher of nature.
-Everything that is beautiful in man is temporary and does not last.
-Our biggest stupid things can be very sensible.
-Those who fall in love with practice without theory are like pilots without a compass or direction, they can never know where they are going.
-Who really knows what he is saying, has no reason to raise his voice.
-The human eye receives the same pleasure from painted beauty as from true beauty.
-The first principle of the science of painting is the point, the second is the line, the third is the surface, the fourth is the body.
-The second principle of painting is the shadow.
-He who thinks little makes a lot of mistakes.
-Evil does not hurt me again.
-We must not want the impossible.
-Sculpture is not science, it is mechanical art.
- Secretly reproach the friend and praise him in public.
-Who does not appreciate life, does not deserve it.
-In my opinion, these sciences are vain and are full of errors that are not born from experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience… that has passed through one of the five senses.
-If we doubt the certainty of everything that passes through our senses, how much more should we doubt the things that do not pass through them.
-Nature endows us in such a way that anywhere we find something to learn.
-The science that is most useful is the one that has the most communicable fruit.
-Inequality is the cause of all movements.
-Of the simple colors, the first is white, although the philosophers do not accept either white or black in the number of colors, because one is the cause of colors and the other is deprivation.
-White… the light without which no color can be seen, yellow for earth, green for water, blue for air, red for fire…
-Whoever has more, is more afraid of losing everything.
-The science of painting extends to all colors
-The painting spreads on the surface, colors and figures of anything created by nature, and philosophy penetrates within the same bodies, considering that these are its own virtues.
-Poetry… does not press the way of visual virtue like painting.
-The objective of painting is to communicate to all generations of the universe, because its purpose is subject to visual virtue.
-The painting… does not need different interpreters, as do the letters (poetry).
-The painting represents with more truth and certainty the meaning of the works of nature, something that words or letters do not do.
-Letters represent words with more truth in a way that painting does not.
-The sciences that can be imitated are those where what is done by the disciple is equal to what is done by the teacher… these are useful for the imitator.
-The painter is the owner of all the things that pass through the thought of man, because he has the desire to see the beauties that make him fall in love.
-The painting has a more valuable meaning than poetry… and they are much more worthy than words, which are the works of man…
-The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the main way common sense uses to better copy the infinite works of nature, the ear is the second way.
-If you historians, poets or mathematicians, have not observed things with the eye, you could refer to them in the wrong way.
-The painting is a silent poetry, and poetry is a blind painting, and the one and the other are imitating nature… and by one or the other many moral customs can be demonstrated.
-Music should not be given a name other than "sister of painting."
-Between painting and sculpture I find no other difference, but the sculptor creates his works with greater physical fatigue than the painter, and the painter creates his works with greater mental fatigue.
-The sculpture lacks the beauty of colors, it lacks the perspective of colors…
- By pretending the words, poetry surpasses painting, and by pretending the facts, painting surpasses poetry.
-Young people must learn perspective first, then the measurements of each thing.
-There are many men who have decided to love design.
-Study science first, then follow the practice born of that science.
-For many reasons I say and confirm that designing in company is much better than designing alone.
-The painter must seek to be universal.
-Always practice should be built on a good theory, of which perspective is the guide and the door, and without it nothing is done well.
-I tell all painters that no one should imitate the form or manner of another, because otherwise they will be called grandchildren of nature and not children of nature.