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Leonardo da Vinci

Read through the most famous quotes from Leonardo da Vinci




Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication


— Leonardo da Vinci


#simplicity #sophistication #simplicity

Our life is made by the death of others.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#life #made #others #our

Water is the driving force in nature.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#water #nature

Realize that everything connects to everything else.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#connection

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#cast #compass #knows #like #loves

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose


— Leonardo da Vinci


#purpose #work #motivational

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#knowledge #learning #love

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#truth #integrity

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#painting #art

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.


— Leonardo da Vinci


#active #doing #genius #least #lofty






About Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci Quotes




Did you know about Leonardo da Vinci?

Hippolyte Taine wrote in 1866: "There may not be in the world an example of another genius so universal so incapable of fulfilment so full of yearning for the infinite so naturally refined so far ahead of his own century and the following centuries. Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. There are compositions for paintings studies of details and drapery studies of faces and emotions of animals babies dissections plant studies rock formations whirlpools war machines helicopters and architecture.

He conceptualised a helicopter a tank concentrated solar power a calculator and the double hull and he outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. Among his works the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time with their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.

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