734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

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.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.