Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Art is the skin of the soul.

I think that our personalities and our souls have so much - we're so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.

Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a character and they are open to be filled with one's own imagination.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.

Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

The spirit is the true self.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

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.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.