Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Soul
-
He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.
→ -
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
→ -
The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.
→ -
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
→ -
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.
→ -
Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.
→ -
I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.
→ -
To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
→ -
We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.
→ -
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.
→ -
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
→ -
The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.
→ -
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
→ -
If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.
→ -
The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
→
Related Authors
-
Giorgio Vasari Painter -
Vincent Van Gogh Painter -
Pablo Picasso Painter -
William Shakespeare Poet -
Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist -
Salvador Dali Painter -
Claude Monet Painter -
Titian Painter -
Nicolaus Copernicus Mathematician -
Leonardo DiCaprio Actor -
Albrecht Durer Artist -
Michelangelo Sculptor -
Rembrandt Painter -
Niccolo Machiavelli Historian -
Isaac Newton Physicist -
Galileo Galilei Physicist -
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Artist -
Thomas A. Edison Inventor -
Aristotle Philosopher -
Raphael Painter