Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes - Page 2

Water is the driving force in nature.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Learning never exhausts the mind.