Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Light, Sight

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

• The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Mean, Light

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

• Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Darkness, Shadow

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Intelligent, Light

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

• The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Darkness, Withdrawal

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.57, OUP Oxford

• Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.128, OUP Oxford

• Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Fire, Darkness

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

• Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Light, Darkness

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

• The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fire, Light, Air

  "A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art".

• There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Humble, Light

  Leonardo da Vinci (2017). “Thoughts on art and life”, p.18, Youcanprint

• Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Darkness, Substance

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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