Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The foundation of any work affects its beauty; purity and preparation are essential.
Leonardo Da Vinci's quote emphasizes the importance of a solid foundation in any creative endeavor. Just as colors need a pure background to shine, our thoughts, ideas, or artistic works require a clear and prepared base to reach their full potential and be appreciated for their beauty.
Themes
ArtBeautyFoundationPreparationCreativity
In practice
Example use cases
In an art class, a teacher might use this quote to emphasize the importance of preparing the canvas before painting.
More from Leonardo Da Vinci
All quotes βSmall rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Similar quotes
Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.
Jeff BuckleyRead
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
Quentin TarantinoRead
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
Mina LoyRead
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxRead
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.
Jean-Luc GodardRead