Leonardo da Vinci
Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.Collection: Stars
I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.Collection: Desire
average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.Collection: Moving
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.Collection: Art
You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.Collection: Wisdom
The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.Collection: Teacher
The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.Collection: Love
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.Collection: Emotional
Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.Collection: Intelligent
The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.Collection: Light
We ought not to desire the impossible.Collection: Desire
Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.Collection: Advice
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.Collection: Inspirational
I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Mean
All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.Collection: Eye
Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.Collection: Nature
King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth.Collection: Kings
Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.Collection: Memories
Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.Collection: Being Strong
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.Collection: Discipline
Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.Collection: Past
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.Collection: Inspirational
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.Collection: Mean
Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.Collection: Horse
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.Collection: Essence
Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.Collection: Men
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.Collection: Eye
We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.Collection: Art
In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.Collection: Wall
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.Collection: Nature
Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.Collection: Movement
once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look upCollection: Inspirational
A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.Collection: Jobs
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.Collection: Love
Motion is created by the destruction of balance.Collection: Balance
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.Collection: Beautiful
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Collection: Inspirational
The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.Collection: Genius
life without love, is no life at allCollection: Inspirational
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.Collection: Patience
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.Collection: Perfection
I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.Collection: World
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.Collection: Judgement
Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.Collection: Education
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.Collection: Artist
All thoughts start from emotions.Collection: Emotion
It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.Collection: Notes
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.Collection: Being Strong