734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

The moment is timeless.

My body is not a tomb for animals.

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.

Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

All thoughts start from emotions.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.