Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Art
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
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First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
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Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
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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.
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After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
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Study the science of art and the art of science.
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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.
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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.
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A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
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We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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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.
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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