Browse Leonardo da Vinci quotes and sayings.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in […]
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and […]
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap […]
Time stays long enough for those who use it. Leonardo da Vinci
Learn to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. Leonardo da Vinci
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should […]
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. […]
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when […]
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Leonardo da Vinci
The ARTIST sees what others only catch a glimpse of. Leonardo da Vinci
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back […]
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of […]
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how […]
Tears come from the heart not the brain. Leonardo da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned. Leonardo da Vinci
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned […]
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is […]
Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. […]
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo […]
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must […]