Quote

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

Leonardo da Vinci

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
Anatomist
Architect
Astronomer
Botanist
Caricaturist
Chemist
Civil Engineer
Composer
Diplomat
Engineer
Inventor
Mathematician
Musician
Doubts
Painter
Achieve
Doubt
Littles
Little

More quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Image
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
O Time! consumer of all things O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
The knowledge of all things is possible
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
We ought not to desire the impossible.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.
Leonardo da Vinci