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 turns not back who is bound to a star.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
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.
He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.
Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.
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.