Leonardo da Vinci on Creativity
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, catalogued under creativity, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and filed under "creativity" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #94433: "To manage the large mould make a model of the small mould, make a small room in proportion."
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #4431: "All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions"
5 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci on Creativity
"To manage the large mould make a model of the small mould, make a small room in proportion."
"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions"
"The Medici created and destroyed me."
"Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy — on experience, the mistress of their Masters. They go about puffed up and pompous, dressed and decorated with , not of their own labours, but of those of others. And they will not allow me my own. They will scorn me as an inventor; but how much more might they — who are not inventors but vaunters and declaimers of the works of others — be blamed."
"If you wish to make a figure in marble, first make one of clay, and when you have finished it, let it dry and place it in a case which should be large enough, after the figure is taken out of it, to receive also the marble, from which you intend to reveal the figure in imitation of the one in clay."