Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Fa vini potenti e assai, … e ‘l vino vale el più uno soldo il boccale e la libbra della vitella un soldo e ‘l sale 10 dinari, e ‘l simile il burro, ed è la loro libbra 30 once, e l’ova un soldo la soldata. (Modern Italian)

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil....

Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street...

The painter strives and competes with nature...There is nothing in all nature without its reason. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience...

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

Perfection is when there is nothing left to take away.