Famous Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Leonardo da Vinci
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
Leonardo da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci
Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
Leonardo da Vinci
Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
Leonardo da Vinci
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci
