734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

That which has no limitations, has no form.

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

...The world wouldn't be the world, without trouble.