734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives...

The cat is nature's masterpiece.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.