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
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.
You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.