Leonardo De Vinci's Famous Art Quotes - World Art Day 15th April.
To honour for Leonardo De Vinci his birthday was declared as World Art Day by the UNESCO In their general conference in the year of 2019. The UNESCO was declared that time Leonardo De Vinci's birthday will be celebrated as World Art Day. DE VINCI primarily known as Painter.
There are some famous quotes about Art By Leonardo De Vinci
▪️Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight, which are: darkness, light, solidity and colour, form and position, distance and propinquity, Motion and Rest
▪️The Painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it;and which muscle by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage surround and support the said muscle.
▪️The mind of the Painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it
▪️The Painter who draws merely by practice and by eye. Without any reason, is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
▪️"Art is never finished, only abandoned.
▪️"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is an art."
▪️Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.""
▪️A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
▪️The Painter has the universe in his mind and hands. "
▪️It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. "
▪️"Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom. "
▪️No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature. "
▪️He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement. "
▪️Sculpture a very noble art, is one that Does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars in Foreshortening and in light and shade. The painter has to invent a process ( Where as) sculpture is held by nature.
▪️ "The vivacity and brightness of colours 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."
▪️ Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any men's opinion.. Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behave us to admit that they are able to judge our faults. "
▪️He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. "
▪️"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. "
▪️First study the science and the practice the art which is born of that science. "
▪️As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do."