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O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Greed, Stronger
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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

Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Sea, Arriving
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: "Translated from the Original Italian"”, p.216, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Painting, Reason
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Son, Style
da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the grandchild. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Children, Abundance
Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art”, p.205, 谷月社

I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Hands, Perfect

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Children, Nephew

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

Leonardo da Vinci
Mother, Art, Nature
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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