Leonardo da Vinci Quotes by Walter Isaacson

Think visually. Leonardo was not blessed with the ability to formulate math equations or abstractions. So he had to visualize them, which he did with his studies of proportions, his rules of perspective, his method for calculating reflections from concave mirrors, and his ways of changing one shape into another of the same size. Too often, when we

In collecting such a medley of ideas, Leonardo was following a practice that had become popular in Renaissance Italy of keeping a commonplace and sketch book, known as a zibaldone. But in their content, Leonardo’s were like nothing the world had ever, or has ever, seen. His notebooks have been rightly called “the most astonishing testament to the p

Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator.

If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.