Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Soul, Five Senses, Ministers

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.335, GENERAL PRESS

• A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Two, Soul

  Roger Whiting, Leonardo (da Vinci) (2006). “The Art of Leonardo Da Vinci”

• The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Appreciation, Nature, Hard Work

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.190, OUP Oxford

• A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Attitude, Men

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1998). “Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519”, Konemann

• Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Soul, Divine

• To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Soul, Watches, Body

• I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Hands, Perfect

• Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Nature, Science

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.971, Delphi Classics

• We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Soul, Doubt, Existence

• The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Soul, Body

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.106, OUP Oxford

• The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wind, Soul, Sound

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.80, eKitap Projesi

• The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Soul, Deeper

• He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Dirty, Dwelling, Soul

• The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Essence, Two, Soul

• If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Confused, Order, Confusion

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.440, GENERAL PRESS

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