Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea. Leonardo da Vinci More Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci More Quotes From Leonardo da Vinci A life well used procures a happy death. Leonardo da Vinci happy-death wells used Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. Leonardo da Vinci passion intelligent intellectual The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances. Leonardo da Vinci distance drawing loss To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all. Leonardo da Vinci good-person ill speak Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind. Leonardo da Vinci judging mind two The painter strives and competes with nature. Leonardo da Vinci painter strife strive One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another. Leonardo da Vinci small-beginnings born All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other. Leonardo da Vinci rushing together sky Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. Leonardo da Vinci intelligent inspirational needs I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air. Leonardo da Vinci circles air water The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me. Leonardo da Vinci destroyed made Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding. Leonardo da Vinci understanding arguing memories Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry. Leonardo da Vinci painting judging facts Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces. Leonardo da Vinci effort faces beautiful To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. Leonardo da Vinci delight doe tree Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body. Leonardo da Vinci nature beautiful science Truth was the only daughter of Time. Leonardo da Vinci daughter time science The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul. Leonardo da Vinci body eye soul The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. Leonardo da Vinci wise evil doe Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. Leonardo da Vinci nature law science
