Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

My body is not a tomb for other creatures.

Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.

The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it.

How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, the work of the painter is nobler than that of nature, its mistress.

sooner will there exist a body without a shadow than virtue unaccompanied by envy.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Nuestra vida está hecha de la muerte de otros

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

The draperies that clothe figures must show that they are inhabited by these figures, enveloping them neatly to show the posture and motion of such figures, and avoiding the confusion of many folds, especially over the prominent parts, so that these may be evident

No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril.

There will come a time when men look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard: but if he will apply himself to learn from the objects of nature he will produce good results. This we see was the case with the painters who came after the time of the Romans, for they continually imitated each other, and from age to age their art steadily declined.

Man discourseth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Priroda nikada ne krši svoje zakone.