Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Judgment

Quotes about: Judgment

• Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Work, Distance, Taken

• Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Health, Inspire, Relaxation

• An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Artist, Self, Criticism

• Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Funny, Humor, Enemy

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

• Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Understanding, Kind, Judgment

• Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

• The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Perception, Judgment, Organs

• Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Experience, Judgment

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

• All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Past, Perception, May

• The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Mirrors, Opposites

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.130, Univ of California Press

• There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hate, Two, Giving

• Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.341, Delphi Classics

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