Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

life without love, is no life at all

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Water is the driving force in nature.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.