More quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience"
"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
"Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun."