All LEONARDO DA VINCI Quotes about “Painting”

“If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.”
“A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.”
“How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.”
“Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.”
“He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.”
“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.”
“Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.”
“I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by.”
“The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.”
“We may call painting the grandchild of nature.”

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