Quotes By Leonardo da Vinci
Polymath
Leonardo da Vinci
Apr 15, 1452 - May 02, 1519
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.
It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.
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