The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
Leonardo da VinciTo discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
Leonardo da VinciIt vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
Leonardo da VinciA bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.
Leonardo da Vinci