Quotes: Leonardo da Vinci

"Art is never finished, only abandoned." 

–– Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, engineer, inventor, and architect 

via: Commonplace Book 2022-2024, 2024,p. 182.

Quotes: Leonardo da Vinci

"It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you really consider them well, you may find really marvellous ideas."

–– Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, engineer, inventor, and architect 

via: Sketchbook 21, 2013, p. 16

Quotes: Leonardo da Vinci

"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard; but if he will apply himself to learn from the objects of nature he will produce good results. This we see was the case with the painters who came after the time of the Romans, for they continually imitated each other, and from age to age, their art steadily declined." 

–– Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, engineer, inventor, and architect 

via Sketchbook 13, 2010, p. 24