Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• Life is pretty simple:
  You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
  You do more of what works.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beauty, Simple, Stuff

• 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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Choices, Understanding

• It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Practice, Honor

• Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Movement, Failing, Usefulness

  Leonardo da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter, Mrs. R. C. Bell (1970). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.357, Courier Corporation

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