Leonardo da Vinci Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Leonardo da Vinci quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased artist born on Apr 15, 1452). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 94 we have for him.
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.”
“To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.”
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
“The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”
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