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
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Life well spent is long.
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
I have wasted my hours.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.