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Quotes from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519 Italy

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32 quotes

The properties of the air are such that it may become condensed or rarefied.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

No impetus created by any movement whatever can be immediately consumed, but if it finds an object which has a great resistance it consumes itself in a reflex movement.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory:—That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Remember that your bird should have no other model than the bat, because its membranes serve as an armour or rather as a means of building together the pieces of its armour, that is the framework of the wings.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leonardo da Vinci (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.