734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed of the union of proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

The days are long enough for those who use them.

Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.