Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

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  Water is the driving force of all nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Reality, Water

• Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Love Life, Iron

• I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Creativity, Eye, Air

• To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Flower, Hands, Water

• When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memorable, Hands, Water

• In time and with water, everything changes.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Water, Things Change

• In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Time, Rivers

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.258, OUP Oxford

• Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Iron, Water, Mind

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.19, eKitap Projesi

• The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Science, Air, Water

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

• The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Blood, Water, Mountain

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

• Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Air, Evil

• ... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Spring

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.153, Profile Books

• Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Sea

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.21, OUP Oxford

• Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

• I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Air, Circles, Water

• The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fire, Light, Air

  "A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art".

• He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Water, Doe, Pot

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.32, Univ of California Press

• If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Long, Water

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