Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Bones

Quotes about: Bones

• O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beauty, Desire, Causes

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

• O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Kings, Space

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.453, GENERAL PRESS

• Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Science, Oysters, Sea

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Carlo Pedretti, Martin Kemp, Owen Gingerich, American Museum of Natural History (1996). “Codex Leicester: a masterpiece of science”

• ... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Spring

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.153, Profile Books

• The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Bones, Fortune

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.493, GENERAL PRESS

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