Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

• The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Imagination, Rudders, Faculty

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

• It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Dark, Imagination, Lines

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1938). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

• You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Creativity, Clothes

• 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

• The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Imagination, Shadow, Body

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.89, Lulu.com

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