734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

I wish to work miracles...

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.