More - Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

 Friends Or Friendship Italian Artist

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

 

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

 Judgment Rest

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

 Italian Artist

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

Leonardo da Vinci

 

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

 Darkness Deception Italian Artist

The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates.

Leonardo da Vinci

 Painting

A well-spent day brings happy sleep

Leonardo da Vinci

 

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Leonardo da Vinci

 Italian Artist

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

 Empathy Italian Artist Simplicity