Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

Falling is one of the ways of moving.

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo.

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

In life, when you start to fall, you don't have to go crazy, scolding yourself and further throwing yourself off balance. Instead, simply make adjustments.

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

You can't even stand without risking to fall.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now.

Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene

I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.

We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the falling part, and holding hangs. Relationships were so easy when all you had to work on was standing up together.

The key to life is balance, especially if you are on a ledge.

Arya, What are you doing?" "Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours." Her hands flailed at the air to steady herself. Ned had to smile. "Which toe?" he teased. "ANY toe," Arya said, exasperated with the question. She hopped from her right leg to her left, swaying dangerously before she regained her balance. "Must you do your standing here?" he asked. "It's a long hard fall down these steps." "Syrio says a water dancer NEVER falls.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.