11 Quotes Tagged: leonardo-da-vinci

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

When wine is drunk by a drunkard, that wine is revenged on the drinker.

Leonardo Da Vinci Notebooks, 1281

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.”

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate something until we've understood it.

For once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Perché la minestra si fredda.

Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain.

...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator.