Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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.

All bodies together, and each by itself, give off to the surrounding air an infinite number of images which are all-pervading and each complete, each conveying the nature, colour and form of the body which produces it.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.

He had searched to find a scientific basis for art, and discovered it in the imitation of nature, based on rational experience.

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

I love to kiss my girl when we watch deep Netflix shows

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

Experience is never at fault; it is only your judgment that is in error, in promising itself such results from experience as are not caused by our experiments. For having given a beginning, what follows from it must necessarily be a natural development of such a beginning, unless it has been subject to a contrary influence, while, if it is affected by any contrary influence, the result which ought to follow from the aforesaid beginning, will be found to partake of this contrary influence in a greater or lesser degree in proportion as the said influence is more or less powerful than the aforesaid beginning.

A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself.

As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.