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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Art

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Art, Class

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Creative, Immortal

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Mind, Principles

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Mislead Us, Joy

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Creativity, Drawing

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Mislead Us, Design

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Work, Engineering

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Hands, Doe

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Moving, Perfection

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Lying, Hands

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.185, OUP Oxford

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Beauty Of Life

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Art

Study the science of art and the art of science.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Study

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Practice, Firsts

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Art, Creativity

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Constraints, Art Life

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Knowledge, Color

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Attitude, Men

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1998). “Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519”, Konemann

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Leonardo da Vinci

Wise, Art, Sleep

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Queens, Generations

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Men, Passing Away

Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.93, Profile Books

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Sex, Actors

Dell' Anatomia Fogli B (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. III)

After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Pain, Light

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, May, Grandson

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.227, GENERAL PRESS

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