734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

When you are alone you are all your own.

Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

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.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.