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Especially learn how to see.

Especially learn how to see.

Leonardo da Vinci

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Leonardo da Vinci
Soul, Five Senses, Ministers
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.335, GENERAL PRESS

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

Leonardo da Vinci
Pain, Feelings, Deeper

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

Leonardo da Vinci
Desert, Rewards, Wealth
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.83, eKitap Projesi

To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

Leonardo da Vinci
Soul, Watches, Body

An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Self, Criticism

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

Leonardo da Vinci
Health, Inspire, Relaxation

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Education, Teaching

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Dream
Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Reality, Water

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

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Leonardo da Vinci
Time, Men, Compassion

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Small Rooms, Space

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.

Leonardo da Vinci
Mistake, Wells, Knows
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Leonardo da Vinci
Lying, Animal, Men
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Leonardo da Vinci
Experience, Thinker, Reasoning
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.969, Delphi Classics

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

Leonardo da Vinci
Fear, Danger
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.96, eKitap Projesi

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci
Learning, Mind, Sap
Leonardo (da Vinci), Carlo Pedretti, Martin Kemp, Owen Gingerich, American Museum of Natural History (1996). “Codex Leicester: a masterpiece of science”

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Leonardo da Vinci
Love, Life, Educational
"The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Hands, Drawing

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Desire, Aries

It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

Leonardo da Vinci
Wall, Fire, Clouds
Quoted in Irma A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci
Motivational, Happy, Death
Codice Trivulziano 281

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci
Understanding, Kind, Judgment

He who walks straight rarely falls.

Leonardo da Vinci
Fall, Walks
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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