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Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

Leonardo da Vinci
Fall, Looks, Figures
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.261, GENERAL PRESS

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Leonardo da Vinci
Horse, Perspective, Ships
da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills.

Leonardo da Vinci
Dog, Horse, Children

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".

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Body, Boundaries
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.353, Delphi Classics

Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.

Leonardo da Vinci
Simple, Men, Thinking
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.341, Delphi Classics

When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.

Leonardo da Vinci
Mirrors, Hands, Judging
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

Leonardo da Vinci
Color, Ideas, Design

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

Leonardo da Vinci
Character, Expression, Giving

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Experience, Judgment
Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.

Leonardo da Vinci
Sky, Rushing, Together
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated”, p.989, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Travel, Eye
"Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci".

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.

Leonardo da Vinci
Moving, Men, Use
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.229, GENERAL PRESS

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

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Leonardo da Vinci
Mastery, Environment

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Numbers, Justice
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

Leonardo da Vinci
Moving, Bones, Fortune
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.493, GENERAL PRESS

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Leonardo da Vinci
Flower, Men, Garden

The motive power is the cause of all life.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Causes, Motive
Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1138, Library of Alexandria

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

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

Leonardo da Vinci
Good Person, Speak, Ill

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Men, Hemisphere
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.344, GENERAL PRESS

Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.

Leonardo da Vinci
Sleep, Eye, Body

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

Some promises and time disappoint us

Leonardo da Vinci
Promise, Disappoint

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