Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

• 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 noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Joy

• 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

• 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

• All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.6, OUP Oxford

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Hands, Doe

• 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 the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Queens, Generations

• 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

• Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creative, Immortal

• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Work, Engineering

• 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

• 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

• In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Beauty Of 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

• Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Nature, Travel

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.105, OUP Oxford

• A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1203, Delphi Classics

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Moving, Perfection

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Practice, Firsts

• 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

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