Leonardo Da Vinci

The days are long enough for those who use them.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Nothing is hidden under the sun.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Life is pretty simple: _x000D_ You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. _x000D_ You do more of what works.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

My body is not a tomb for animals.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.