Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

There will be many which will increase in their destruction.

No small hole can so modify the convergence of rays of light as to prevent, at a long distance, the transmission of the true form of the luminous body causing them.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

Colui che più possiede, è colui che più ha paura di perdere.

Where there is most power of feeling, there of martyrs is the greatest martyr.

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Every instrument requires to be made by experience.

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

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.

There will be many men who will move one against another, holding in their hands a cutting tool. But these will not do each other any injury beyond tiring each other; for, when one pushes forward the other will draw back. But woe to him who comes between them! For he will end by being cut in pieces.

"Everything in some way connects to everything else".

Leonardo Da Vinci

The line has in itself neither matter nor substance and may rather be called an imaginary idea than a real object; and this being its nature it occupies no space. Therefore an infinite number of lines may be conceived of as intersecting each other at a point, which has no dimensions and is only of the thickness (if thickness it may be called) of one single line.