Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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.

The painter’s mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

All thoughts start from emotions.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.