734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills.

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.

Some promises and time disappoint us.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.