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
To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.
It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul...
Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.
We should not desire the impossible.
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
A long life is a life well spent.
If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.
Lust is the cause of generation.
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.