All LEONARDO DA VINCI Quotes about “Eyes”

“Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.”
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
“There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.”
“He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.”
“Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.”
“The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.”
“Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.”
“The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.”
“Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.”
“The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.”
“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.”
“There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.”
“All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.”
“The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.”
“The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.”
“The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.”
“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 painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.”
“The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.”

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