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
Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.
We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.
It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.
Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.
The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.