More quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience"
"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."