734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.