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
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
life without love, is no life at all
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.