Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Whenever you want a radical shift, it rarely happens.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

Everything is going to change.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies.

I've always been obsessed with the art of transformation.

When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

With destruction comes renovation.

Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.