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
He who walks straight rarely falls.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.
Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.