Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardoˈvintʃi] ; 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank,...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth15 April 1452
CityVinci, Italy
CountryItaly
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
He who fears dangers will not perish by them.
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.
The motive power is the cause of all life.
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.
That which has no limitations, has no form.
Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.