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Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

Leonardo da Vinci
Advice, Ignorant, Needs
Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.65, Lulu.com

The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.

Leonardo da Vinci
Light, Darkness, Withdrawal
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.57, OUP Oxford

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

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

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

Leonardo da Vinci
Mother, Nature, Animal
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.60, eKitap Projesi

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

Leonardo da Vinci
May, Able, Worthy
Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Understanding, Arguing

After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Pain, Light

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

Leonardo da Vinci
Small Rooms, Dwelling, Mind
"The Notebooks 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

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

Leonardo da Vinci
Writing, Bird, World
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.

Leonardo da Vinci
Attitude, Book, Blow

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Fly Away, Enjoy

I have wasted my hours.

Leonardo da Vinci
Hours
Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Leonardo on the Human Body”, p.466, Courier Corporation

One's thoughts turn towards Hope.

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

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Doe, Persevere
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.251, GENERAL PRESS

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Travel, Fall
"The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci".

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

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Leonardo da Vinci
Destroyed
Alessandro Vezzosi, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1987). “Leonardo: Art Utopia and Science”

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Leonardo da Vinci
Tree, Doe, Delight
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.56, eKitap Projesi

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Airplane
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

Leonardo da Vinci
Ontology, Tests, Logic

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Animal, Men
Codice Atlantico 76 in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1

You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

Leonardo da Vinci
Wall, Creativity, Clothes

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

Leonardo da Vinci
Wisdom, Math, Eternity

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