Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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Leonardo da Vinci

Profession : Artist

Birth : April 15, 1452

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Leonardo da Vinci

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

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The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Leonardo da Vinci

Our life is made by the death of others.

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Life well spent is long.

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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

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The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

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Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

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The Medici created and destroyed me.

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The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Leonardo da Vinci