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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

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".

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

Leonardo da Vinci
Half, Companion, Painter

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Travel, Eye
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.107, 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

This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.

Leonardo da Vinci
Mother, Children, Men

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

Leonardo da Vinci
Lying, Fire, Sophistry
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.597, Delphi Classics

Savage is he who saves himself.

Leonardo da Vinci
Savages
Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1190, Library of Alexandria

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Fall, Tree, Vines
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.495, GENERAL PRESS

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Dignity, Baseness
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.210, GENERAL PRESS

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

Leonardo da Vinci
Mirrors, Mind, Should

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

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

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Wrinkles, Mirrors
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Practice, Soldier
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.10, OUP Oxford

Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

Leonardo da Vinci
Beautiful, Effort, Faces

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Hopeful, Coincidence
"The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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

O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

Leonardo da Vinci
Beauty, Desire, Causes
Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

Leonardo da Vinci
People, Wish, Looks

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Past, Long

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Leonardo da Vinci
Perfection, Causes, Misery
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Past, Mind
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Confusion
Leonardo (da Vinci), Irma A. Richter, Thereza Wells (2008). “Notebooks”, p.9, Oxford University Press

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

Leonardo da Vinci
Gold, Quests, Vain
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

Leonardo da Vinci
Guardian

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Leonardo da Vinci
Heaven, Favour, Fame
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.598, Delphi Classics

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