Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Perspective

Quotes about: Perspective

• The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Hands, Drawing

• There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Eye, Color

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

• 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

• Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Thorough Knowledge, Drawing

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.42, GENERAL PRESS

• Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Men, Perfect

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.188, GENERAL PRESS

• The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Loss, Drawing

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

• Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Horse, Perspective, Ships

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

• Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Perspective, Shadow

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

• Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mean, Science, Discovery

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.39, Univ of California Press

• Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Eye, Mean

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

• Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Practice, Drawing, Perspective

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.344, Delphi Classics

• Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Perspective, Painting, Rudders

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